You really liked having him in jail, like people who shut birds up in cages on the excuse that they’re protecting them from their enemies.

Suddenly, I could see it all so vividly: the cruelty and inhumanity of self-righteous people, who like to think that they’re saints, pure as the driven snow.

Suddenly, I could see it all so vividly: the cruelty and inhumanity of self-righteous people, who like to think that they're saints, pure as the driven snow.

I'd learned never to be a snob until I got to know a person's worth; and how can you get to know a person well if you don't have coffee together?

Before it began to open new wounds, the war healed quite a few old ones: it shook us out of our lethargy, our life took on new meaning, we no longer lived without a purpose, eating and sleeping and excreting like animals.

You really liked having him in jail, like people who shut birds up in cages on the excuse that they're protecting them from their enemies.

When you're dead, you're dead, and that's that.