“We live in a center-right country. Now watch me smile oleaginously.”

“I wish we could live in this moment, right here, right now, and live in it forever”

“Watch an Ant, Watch the bees, feel wind move the leaves. Touch your smile above your chin from the glorious world we all live in.”

“I smiled down at Charlie, and I understood that he would be free now even if I would not. In this way the life that was in me would find its way in him now. It was not a sad feeling. I felt my heart take off lightly like a butterfly and I thought, yes, this is it, something has survived in me, something that does not need to run anymore, because it is worth more than all the money in the world and its currency, its true home, is the living. And not just the living in this particular country or in that particular country, but the secret, irresistible heart of the living. I smiled back at Charlie and I knew that the hopes of this whole human world could fit inside one soul.”

“This might be heaven!We might be living in heaven right now! And we might be the angels!”

“Right now we have this. Right now, this moment, we have this walk, this night, you and your arm around me.”