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“Love itself is obvious.You meet, love, part ways, get hurt and you meet again. I bet people get married because they’re tired of repeating those things.”
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“The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.”
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“Do you have children? she asked. No. Why? The man answered that one had to have faith in the world to have children.”
Source : Alessandro Baricco (2004). “Without Blood”, p.40, Canongate Books
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“The memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world, nor of its thoughts and hopes. Their gentle influence may teach us how to weave fresh garlands for the graves of those we loved: may purify our thoughts, and bear down before it old enmity and hatred; but beneath all this, there lingers, in the least reflective mind, a vague and half-formed consciousness of having held such feelings long before, in some remote and distant time, which calls up solemn thoughts of distant times to come, and bends down pride and worldliness beneath it.”
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“All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.”
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“I deeply regret to say that terrorism has become globalized: ' From New York to Mosul, from Damascus to Baghdad, from the Easternmost to the Westernmost parts of the world, from Al-Qaeda to Daesh'. The extremists of the world have found each other and have put out the call: 'extremists of the world unite'. But are we united against the extremists?”
Source : "Iran's Dinner Diplomacy" by Robin Wright, www.newyorker.com. September 26, 2014. 
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“O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.”
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“Global warming, indeed much of environmentalism, has become a new religion. Like the old religions, environmentalism preaches much good sense, is well meaning, but has a worrying lack of logic at its core.”
