“Religious war at its simplest is killing each other over who has the best imaginary friend.”
“A religious war is like killing someone over who has the better imaginary friend.”
“You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.”
“Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed. That is the tragedy of language my friend. Those who know each other only through symbolic representations are forced to imagine each other. And because their imagination is imperfect, they are often wrong.”
“Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.”
“When I was a kid, I had two friends, and they were imaginary and they would only play with each other.”