“For him, life was a coin that had disaster on one side and waiting for disaster on the other”

“There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster.”

“What appears as disaster postponed is, in virtual reality, disaster expanded.”

“[Saddam Hussein's execution] was a disaster, an unmitigated disaster. I was just so upset, even on the verge of tears. It was the antithesis of everything I had been working for and hoping for.”

“All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.”

“Love without communication is like two sides of a coin that live together, but never see and meet each other. Love without any medium of communication is full of struggle and a yearning. It is just like living with one hope in mind and spending your whole life waiting for each other.”

“Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"--usually when describing her own good fortune or the disasters that had befallen other people.”

“The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.”

“Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.”

“Life constantly presents the greatest opportunity brilliantly disguised as the biggest disaster. ”