Betrayal betrays the betrayer.

Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.

It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait.

Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.

The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel

Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.