“This feat I also had no idea how to accomplish, but ignorance had never stopped me from taking action before.”

“Country music was the most segregated kind of music in America, where even whites played jazz and even blacks sang in the opera. Something like country music was what lynch mobs must have enjoyed w...”

“As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right, a dilemma none of us who wanted to participate in history could escape. The major had the right to live, and...”

“...nothing is more precious than independence and freedom...”

“He responded with one of those looks of pity and amusement I was by now so used to getting, the kind that implied not only was my fly undone, but that there was nothing to see even if it was.”

“give a woman the chance to reject something else besides me”

“Oh, man," said Jack. "Everyone was nice to us when we looked rich. Now it feels like the whole world's against us.”

“War is what happens when language fails.”

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”