“The price one pays for having a kind man at ones elbow.”

“It seems logical that he who supports total war in principle cannot complain of a war against civilians.”

“It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.”

“Dr. Wyman preached a God I couldnt quite see in my mind, and certainly couldnt love. I dimly pictured some kind of Grandfather, who dealt out to bad people their awful just deserts, which I thought...”

“The reality is that changes are coming. ... They must come. You must share in bringing them.”

“Journalism allows it's readers to witness history. Fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.”

“But who can remember pain, once its over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”

“I know what you are learning to endure. There is nothing to be done. Make sure nothing is wasted. Take notes. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In lif...”

“My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning does not stop. The machines do not rest, the systems rarely ...”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”

“In a way, I was safe writing”

“I used to sleep the sleep of someone who knew she was loved. Now, I didn't.”

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