“… and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.”

“They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.”

“Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.”

“The Facts were right there waiting for me, hidden in old books written by people who weren't afraid to be honest”

“I’m quite convinced in my own mind that those who were arguing that [the need to intervene in Iraq] was a more immediate one than some believed - were I’m sure convinced that they were right on fact, I don’t think they were making it up. So as to lying, I don’t think it has been established that any lies were told.”

“There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do.”

“They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good thing.”

“People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.”

“He didn’t like concentrated responsibility. Agreement with other people who he thought were good, right minded, and trying to do the right thing by the world was almost as necessary to him as air to breathe.”

“Actually, there is no such thing as a homosexual person, any more than there is such a thing as a heterosexual person. The words are adjectives describing sexual acts, not people. The sexual acts are entirely normal; if they were not, no one would perform them.”