He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.

When it seems you have nothing at all to live for, death is not especially frightening.

Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine. . .and then make them plausible.

The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.

No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.

Dead … might not be quiet at all.

He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.