She did not think it was true that women fell in love all at once, but rather, that they fell in love through repitition, just the way someone became brave.

What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it?

Clear now that she was as dependent as any addict on the drug of the war. He had underestimated the damage in her.

A woman sees war differently.

Saigon in utter darkness this last night of the war. A gestating monster. Her letter to Linh had been simple: I love you more than life, but I had to see the end.

Why did someone fall in love with you because you were one thing, and then want you to be something else?

The source of my suffering and loneliness is deep in my heart. This is a disease no doctor can cure. Only Union with the Friend can cure it.

Baby girl, five minutes alone with me and you're gonna be begging me to taste your pie.

The truth is a community is as big or as small as your heart lets it be.

I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.

You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.

When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys.

... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.

A man who has to go to the village to get the news hasn't heard from himself in a long time.

When politics promote hate, it becomes a rule, and populist provocation becomes standard. It has been the same throughout the entire history of humanity.

Youre shooting yourself in the foot if you isolate or disempower the moderates.