A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.