“It's always refreshing to meet someone crazier than us," I said. "We seem so normal afterward.”
“Those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly we are not the same afterwards.”
“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
“They be crazier than we are.”
“It’s true the people we meet shape us. But the people we don’t meet shape us also, often more because we have imagined them so vividly.There are people we yearn for but never seem to meet.”
“There's always been war," said Veillard. "But people quickly get accustomed to peace. So they think it's normal. No, war is what's normal.”