“We too had branched off from the people who had come before us, a family that made the family that made us, and we were shining in the darkness and casting our light all around us.”

“The birds are literal representations of the witnesses of those ordinary and big moments, but they are also metaphors for time itself, for the passing of time. It occurred to me, many years after I...”

“Nothing forces us to knowWhat we do not want to knowExcept pain”

“Wisdom is not making life any harder than it has to be.”

“Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment 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.”