“But they were fated to misunderstand each other.”

“It is by universal misunderstanding that we agree with each other.

If, by some misfortune, we understood each other, we would never agree.”

“We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.”

“The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.”

“Their fate will be in each other's hands as they decide whether to share or to shaft.”

“Born enemies don't fight. Nations you would say were designed to go to war against each other — by their skins, their language, their smell: always jealous of each other, always hating each other — they're not the ones who fight. You will find the real antagonists in nations fate has groomed and made ready for the same war.”

“One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.”

“They knew that if they let each other go they were lost, but if they went on holding each other they were also lost.”

“What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?”

“We were each other's rock. But did it make us each other's destiny?”