“To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss.”

“A story is a wondrous invention.”

“We adapt to our sorrows, I suppose, as unpleasant as they might be. One cannot weep forever. One simply runs dry of tears.”

“One's child is always one's child no matter what age they might be. You worry when your child makes a noise, when he doesn't. It's a terrible kind of love. Terrible.”

“False assurances were certainly more harmful than none at all.”

“It was easy to imagine the beginning of time here, but also, perhaps, its end.”

“God, there must be a meaning. Fiercely he was certain that there must be a meaning.Surely, while we live we are not lost.Oh Janos, Janos my brother!Surely we are not lost--while we live.”

“Mates such as they must stand by one another”

“I've got one thing to say: I killed a lot of germans, and I'm only sorry I didn't kill more.”