Either things happen for a reason, or they happen for no reason at all. Either one's life is a thread in a glorious tapestry or humanity is just a hopelessly tangled knot.

He's become like that briefcase in the ground-full of gems yet void of light, so nothing sparkles, nothing shines.

Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.

What he's really saying is: Please be a human being. With a life so full of rules and regiments, it's so easy to forget that's what they are. She knows—she sees—how often compassion takes a back seat to expediency.

...if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened...but people like to keep what's theirs, even after they're dead.

I can't destroy things so beautiful." "Time will destroy them if you don't. Time destroys everything. But if you destroy them, it will mean something.

When you live a life without questions, you're unprepared for the questions when they come.