“Will people really go?” “People always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world.”

“People will always go. Always. They always believe the can make a better life than in the old world. What the hell, maybe they can.”

“She had always thought that if only people could communicate mind-to-mind, eliminating the ambiguities of language, then understanding would be perfect and there'd be no more needless conflicts. Instead she had discovered that rather than magnifying differences between people, language might just as easily soften them, minimize them, smooth things over so that people could get along even though they really didn't understand each other. The illusion of comprehension allowed people to think they were more alike than they really were. Maybe language was better.”

“He knew he could always be smart later, if that turned out to be a better strategy. But once you admitted to being smart, there was no going back.”

“the cruelest, narrowest, most evil people will always rise to power because they'll always be the ones most willing to wrap themselves in the crescent flag and murder people in God's name.”

“And Americans always think international laws are for other people anyway,”

“You killed more people than anybody in history.""Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.”