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

“After all, the girl actually had faith in something, which was more than most people had in these dark times. It was wrong to destroy it.”

“A story is a wondrous invention.”

“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.”