“To be a human is to state the obvious. Repeatedly. Over and over, until the end of time.”

“The inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race.”

“You won't know until it's over. You won't find me in time.”

“The times of the peace dividend following the end of the Cold War are over.”

“It is tragic and sad and chaotic and lovely. All life is the same, as citizens of the human State: the animating limits are within, to be killed and mourned, over and over again.”

“In the end, beauty will only remain a myth. It will fade away over time.”

“We believe that human rights transcend boundaries and must prevail over state sovereignty.”

“Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.”

“This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.”

““Who is this Hemingway person at all?”
“A guy that keeps saying the same thing over and over until you begin to believe it must be good.”
“That must take a hell of a long time,” the big man said.”