“Often, maybe even usually, Bernie ended up being the smartest human in the room. Tonight was different.”
“You’re used to being the smartest guy in the room. Solitary confinement will do that.”
“Why do philosophers in the South so often end as newspapermen, poets as doctors? Maybe they crave what's found in pain and loss: a sense of living among other human beings. They'll give up dreams for that.”
“It's Will," she said. "He's being absolutely ridiculous in the dining room."Charlotte looked puzzled. "How is this different from him being totally ridiculous in the library or the weapons room or any of the other places he's usually ridiculous?”
“...in life it is often the tiny details that end up being the most important.”
“Nonetheless even in capitulation there is still hope, and this hope of human beings never ends, will never end.”