The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.

It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.

It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

Listen up—there’s no war that will end all wars,’ Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that.

Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.