我不知道是妈妈对，还是丹中尉对，我不知道，是否我们每个人都有，注定的命运，还是我们的生命中只有偶然，像在风中飘。但我想：也许两者都有吧，也许两者都在同时发生着。
I don't know if Mama was right or if it...it's Lieutenant Dan. I don't know... if we each have a... destiny... or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze... but I...I think... maybe it's both. Maybe both get happening at the same time.
The most important things are hardest to tell,because words shrink their importance.It's not easy to let strangers care about the good things in your life.
The state is the most important institution in human society because it is the only one that can legitimately use force to maintain order.
The desert could not be claimed or owned–it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given a hundred shifting names.