“Time works so hard for us, if only we can let it.”

“That kind of friendship doesn't just materialize at the end of the rainbow one morning in a soft-focus Hollywood haze. For it to last this long, and at such close quarters, some serious work had go...”

“It always took my breath away, he said, that the five of us could have found one anotheragainst such odds, through all the layers of armored fortifications each of us had set up Do you see now why ...”

“Weve become a nation of defaulters: we buy on credit, and when the bill comes in, were so deeply outraged that we refuse even to look at it.”

“I loved him, you know,' she said. 'I would have loved him as hard as he'd let me, for the rest of my life.”

“Throughout history--even a hundred years ago, even fifty--it was discontent that was considered the threat to society, the defiance of natural law, the danger that had to be exterminated at all cos...”

“I've been thinking of something your father said - that the true measure of love is what one is willing to give up for it. He was talking about freedom - fighting for liberty. But I believe 'tis th...”

“Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for.”

“Was it permitted to believe that there was nowhere upon the earth, or above the earth, a heaven for hogs, where they were requited for all this suffering? Each one of these hogs was a separate crea...”