“JEANI need him like the axe needs the turkey.HARRINGTONDon't be vulgar, Jean. Let us be crooked, but never common.”

“JEANBoy, would I like to see you give some old harpie the three in one! COLONELDon't be vulgar, Jane. Let us be crooked, but never common. ”

“I needed him like I'd never needed anyone.”

“We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.”

“The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind.”

“Look at us all -- we are all of us lost and in all of our different ways of pretending, we all fool ourselves into the very same hell.Look at the cross -- we are all of us loved and one God meets us all at the point of our common need and brings to all of us -- all who will let Him -- salvation.”