“But such was the way with people they loved the things that made them miserable.”

“Hes looking for people he can be himself around. Arent we all?”

“You know, there used to be a difference between authentic music and sellout music. I'm talking about when I was young, in the sixties? Back then we knew there was a soullessness to the sellouts, an...”

“Shed decided that about eighty percent of what you believe about yourself when youre twenty turns out to be wrong. The problem is you dont know what your small true part is until much later.”

“What a treacherous thing a body was, how it so blatantly acted out the minds secrets.”

“It was true. Heard it on Cronkite.”

“In politics, the pen is at its heaviest because it is weighed down by the collective responsibility it holds towards its people and their future in the eyes of the world.”

“Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living.”

“It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda-tours.”