There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.

This (Vietnam) was a land of rebellious barons. It was like Europe in the Middle Ages. But what were the Americans doing here? Columbus had not yet discovered their country.

Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety.

So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.