“Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in.”

“Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.”

“Women tend to act heroically within their own moral universe, regardless of whether anyone else knows about it - donating more kidneys to nonrelatives than men do, for example. Men, on the other ha...”

“They had not yet started out across a continent of grief that a lifetime of walking could not cover.”

“Today's veterans often come home to find that, although they're willing to die for their country, they're not sure how to live for it.”

“How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry?”

“It is hard to write it in words that I can read, that re-establishes the fact that has been haunting me for the past one year.”

“Thinking! Thinking! The process should no longer be merely this feeble flurry of hailstones that raises a little dust. It should be something quite different. Thinking should be a terrifying proces...”

“It never ceases to amaze me that in times of amazing human suffering somebody says something that can be so utterly stupid.”

“Teach all men to fish, but first teach all men to be fair. Take less, give more. Give more of yourself, take less from the world. Nobody owes you anything, you owe the world everything.”

“Respect? Of course, always, to all, because everything seems funnier when you're trying to show respect.”

“This desire to govern a woman -- it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way then he does." He thought. "Yes -- really in a better way. ...”