"For only the good doubt their own goodness, which is what makes them good in the first place. The bad know they are g…"

"I didn't say I was afraid of dying, I answered, I said that I was afraid to get on a plane. There is a difference. (D…"

"Every time my nose gushed blood, I felt like a little boy who'd wet his pants. I jumped out of the chair, pressed a h…"

"April 1945. My unit was in Germany, and we were the ones who liberated Dachau. Thirty thousands breathing skeletons. …"

"[G]overnments always need enemies, even when they're not at war. If you don't have a real enemy, you make one up and …"

"The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle."

"That's what makes his story so impossible, David. Because he's told me the truth. (Alma to David on Hector)"

"If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it fall, does it make a sound or not? Hector had read alot of books by…"

""manche der schönsten Orte auf der Welt liegen auf dem Körper deiner Frau." Paul Auster: Winter Journal. Reinbek bei …"

"" Dein Vater wäre so ein wunderbarer Mann"