“Everything was going to kill you, poetry as well, and the last was the most deadly.”

“A dream is always a place, but when you tell it, it becomes a story which is neither dream nor place.”

“The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.”

“The higher up you go, the more gentle you have to reach down to help other people succeed.”

“The person who expects to understand history must submerge himself in it, must get rid of patriotism, as well as bitterness. And especially in studying a historic life that consists in insecurity must the historian rid himself of all insecurity. He must accept the totality of the data in all their fullness, the noble with the paltry, thinking of how the two interlock.”

“I'm smiling because I know perfectly well what I am and I honestly don't give a damn what you think of me”

“So let me get this straight," he said. "After everything that's happened on this campus-the murder, the stalking, the kidnapping-you want to go up into the woods-by yourself, in the middle of the night, based on something a ghost in a dream told you-and dig a hole?"Well when he put it that way...”