the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.

That's our plan? We're going to walk fifty kilometers, right past the Germans, to a poultry collective that maybe didn't get burned down, grab a dozen eggs, and come home?" "Well, anything would sound ridiculous if said it in that tone of voice." "Tone of....I'm asking you a question!

I've never flown a kite.

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

The fire was silent, the little houses collapsing into the flames without complaint, flocks of sparks rising to the sky. At a distance it seemed beautiful, and I thought it was strange that powerful violence is often so pleasing to the eye.

This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

Every adaptation requires that the screenwriter make difficult choices - and in particular, difficult cuts.