“Still, it was no easy thing to flirt in German.”

“Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.”

“Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.”

“There are some Arabs who think that the Germans did the right thing by the Jews. This makes it easy to recruit Arab terrorist.”

“It's easy to be a naive idealist. It's easy to be a cynical realist. It's quite another thing to have no illusions and still hold the inner flame.”

“That all things are possible to him who believes, that they are less difficult to him who hopes, they are more easy to him who loves, and still more easy to him who perseveres in the practice of these three virtues.”

“Or maybe spring is the season of love and fall the season of mad lust. Spring for flirting but fall for the untamed delicious wild thing.”

“[The] theme-the "early Germans"-is still far from being repudiated.”

“Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.”

“A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.”