“We have become a nation not of citizens but of consumers.”

“Most of all: There's uncertainty in our lives. At night, you just have to go to sleep and have faith in the fairly large certainty that you'll wake up in the morning. Fear only has as much power as we give it space.”

“Every heart is much the same, We tell ourselves down here, The same chambers fed by veins, The same maze of love and fear.”

“God can give or take away, Well who would make such an awful rule.”

“It was the blue of the sky that caught him first: a rapturous, painfully pure spike of color that hooked his eyes like fish and reeled them upward into the heights.”

“If there is a will there is an A.”

“Uschi Glas ist der Chuck Norris des Spießbürgers”