“Besides the pain in my gut, why shouldn't I laugh? I've almost escaped death in a foreign country.”

“I think that Richard was more of a one-girl-for-the-rest-of-your-life-marry-and-make-a-family kind of guy.”

“There has to be at least one other reason besides money that makes you do the things that you do.”

“There's no need to blame fate or destiny for a stupid decision.”

“Your imagination and some masturbation is a much better alternative to finding out what kind of person a bit of casual sex transforms you into.”

“Don't get me wrong, she was an attractive girl, but the last thing she needed was to get mixed up with me.”

“... millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”

“There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it...”

“Once, I took the penny whistle you gave me and discovered a spotby the roaring falls where I could play as loud as I wanted. I lay in the bifurcated trunkof a low-slung birch tree. The sun peeked t...”

“The challenge lies in knowing how to bring this sort of day to a close. His mind has been wound to a pitch of concentration by the interactions of the office. Now there are only silence and the fla...”

“Disillusioned, people simply carried out their work as intended, drinking away sobriety at the end of each hard shift and repeating the process until death.”

“My mind feels like a beehive without the buzz.”

“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.”