“The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.”
“Grief is terror, in its most undiluted form.”
“Feel the chain saw. Be the chain saw.”
“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
“They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.”
“Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.”