“Disillusionment [is] one of the deepest of human wounds.”

“All human life must be regarded as sacred, or one's own may be endangered as well.”

“Women are as brave as any man. They save their own without a second thought. But that's love isn't it? Loyalty. Women never give up, not when it's someone they love. Many a child wouldn't be here if they did.”

“In working with the wounded at Gallipoli, the lead character comments, “Perhaps life was the nightmare and death the awakening.”

“I deserve a swift kick in the shorts for all the times I've stubbornly wound my way through the library stacks, my mule head leading the way, searching fruitlessly for information a librarian could put in my hands in a matter of minutes.”

“There are no bad kids…well, except for the possessed, and maybe those pesky aliens masquerading as humans.”

“To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children.”