“My friend, you are truly yourself alone. God must have broken the mould after turning you out.”

“May you find what you are searching for, my friend. I already have and lost it in the finding.”

“And if it doesn't go like that? Then all your problems will be over and you won't have a thing to worry.”

“In wartime, everyone loves a soldier, and a wounded hero even more so.”

“I will never to the end of my days ever begin to understand my fellow human beings.”

“May you find what you are searching for, my friend.– I already have and lost it in the finding.”

“I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me li...”

“I've got about ten things to say to you right now. But at least nine of them would make me sound like a psycho.In spite of the seriousness of the situation, I nearly smiled. Whats the tenth thing? ...”

“A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy”

“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.”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”