“We were pressed against each other, a husband and wife bound together not by marriage, but by the harmony of our hearts. Death could not undo us, I'd learned. My hamsar was with me still. He would ...”

“But war had a taming effect”

“What he wanted to say was that two thousand years of peace could be undone in a month of war.”

“To be around family is to feel the possibility of growing roots again.”

“An entire lifetime can change in one afternoon. The rest of the world can continue on, unaware of a quiet, solitary cataclysm occurring a few feet away.”

“He believes that people have destroyed religion and religion has destroyed people. He says he believes in God, but he doesn't believe in people.”

“Happiness is good management of expectations and good management means making order and assembling the contingent elements of the "do's'" and the "don'ts", the "maybe yes'" and the "maybe not's". W...”

“Peace, a commodity purchased with friendship and safety and anything comfortable and all things familiar; peace that was a pleasant melody playing through the moments of their day; a chord striking...”

“I will never compromise Truth for the sake of getting along with people who can only get along when we agree.”

“Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.”

“Without form, communication stops... without form, you have everybody burbling on to themselves, whenever and however, things that no one else can understand and - rightly - no one else is interest...”

“A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand. ”