“Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.”

“I have learnt how to live…how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch.”

“And lying there, amid the tall, still grass and beneath the star-drunk sky, listening to the just-this-side-of-inaudible sound of her rhythmic breathing and the noisy silence of the bullfrogs, the grasshoppers, the distant cars rushing endlessly on I-65, I thought it might be a fine time to say the Three Little Words.”

“Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos. ”

“There’s nothing funny about war. Well, aside from this joke Orafoura told me: What did WWI say to WWII? I wish I could tell you the punch line, but the restaurant was so noisy that I didn’t hear it. But I laughed anyway, because I’ll bet it was pretty funny.”

“ENOUGH NOISE. STAND ASIDE. I WILL GUT HIM.”