“Many trees have died so that the Catholic Church can preach against homosexuality.”

“After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.”

“I want to live," he said, "So I have to die.”

“When you do not understand the language being spoken, you have two options. You can struggle against the isolation, or you can give yourself up to it.”

“Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.”

“I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My own practice of religion, you could say, it a nonpractice. I personally feel that it's just as worthy on a weekend to rake the lawns of an elderly neighbor or to climb a mountain and marvel at the beauty of this land we live in as it is to sing hosannas or go to Mass. In other words, I think every many finds his own church- and not all of them have four walls - Judge Haig (Page 399)”

“There are so many ways to betray someone. You can whisper behind his back.You can deceive him on purpose.You can deliver him into the hands of his enemy, when he trusts you.You can break a promise.The question is, if you do any of those things, are you also betraying yourself?”