"“You must think us fools,” he said, leading me back into the gathering, “to waste ourselves in commemorating an era w…"

"I glanced at him. He was wearing a pair of mirrored sunglasses, and that consolidated my anger. Why is it, I ask you,…"

"In mine, while there was also agony, it was essentially a love affair with revolution, with the idea of revolution. A…"

"“These movies, they make war seem like a mystical opportunity. Well, man, when I was here it wasn’t quite that way, y…"

"And that in itself was a sufficient reason to hit him, purely for educational purposes: I had, you see, reached the l…"

"“You had no right,” I said. “You—” Tuu’s face hardened. “We had no right to mislead you? Please, Mr. Puleo. Between o…"

"Here was a beast for whom there could be no predator. What better definition of God is there than that?"

"Doubt concerning their mental well-being creeps in. Is this an instance of healing or a freak scene? Are they two ver…"

"She’s sad because she’s drinking to be sad because she’s afraid that what she does not feel is actually a feeling. Ty…"

"The Southern education stuffs you full of incontrovertible proof that the Rebel defeat was a wild and improbable stro…"