“We like companionship, see, but we can't stand to be around people for very long. So we go get ourselves lost, come back for a while, then get the hell out again.”

“Let come the forces of night! We will stand!" "We will get the hell out of here is what we will do," I muttered.”

“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, versions of ourselves hat we would never see, never permit ourselves to see, never permit ourselves to become, in places we can never go and might not care to, while assuring that we get to return home again”

“The world we knew won't come back.The time we lost can't get back.The lives we had won't be ours again.”

“It's Paradise, but we can't get out of it. And anything you can't get out of is Hell.”

“When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.”