“Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.”

“Losses in life are never fun, but there is one loss no one can afford to experience, the loss of hope.”

“Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.”

“Every generation of Americans since has had to reenact the loss of our innocence. Smog over L. A. was the loss of our innocence. Vietnam was the loss of our innocence. Gettysburg was the loss of our innocence. Ingrid Bergman’s baby was the loss of our innocence. Oklahoma City was the loss of our innocence. The World Trade Center was the loss of our innocence. Other nations are cynical. America has preferred the child’s game of “discovering” evil—Europe’s or Asia’s, her grandfather’s, even her own.”

“Loving someone is a loss of freedom -- but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.”

“The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.”

“An exact science is one that admits loss.”

“What is one man's gain is another's loss.”

“One loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.”

“Humans kill one another – and in some cases themselves – for many reasons, but none is more human than the attempt to make sense of their lives. More than the loss of life, they fear loss of meaning.”