It reminds me of how grandmother always had the right costume for me to wear. You wear the right outfit and you feel like the person you're pretending to be.

Bruno: "Why do you wear pajamas all day?" Shmuel: "The soldiers. They took all our clothes away." Bruno: "My dad's a soldier, but not the sort that takes people's clothes away."

...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.

You’re my best friend, Shmuel,’ he said. ‘My best friend for life.

He looked down and did something quite out of character for him: he took hold of Shmuel's tiny hand in his and squeezed it tightly. "You're my best friend, Shmuel," he said. "My best friend for life.

What exactly was the difference? He wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?

There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.

Bruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that?

I think i'm just breathing, that's all. And there's a difference between breathing and being alive.

Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.

Their lost voices must continue to be heard.

...animals behaved with purpose, it seemed. Unlike people.

True love is giving, not getting. Someone has said, "Love can always wait to give, but lust can never wait to get.

I’m not dangerous, ” I breathed.He brought his face toward mine. “You are to me.”And somehow, against all reason, we were kissing.

A lot of people don't have much food on their table. But they got a lot of forks 'n knives. And they got to cut somethin'.

You've always made the mistake of being yourself.

The life and death of a human being is so exquisitely calibrated as to automatically produce union with Spirit.

I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.

When I was a kid, I just devoured TV 24 hours a day. Now that it's actually available 24 hours a day, I'm usually busy doing other stuff. But I do watch TV when I can.

We undress men and women, we don't dress them any more.

Even though my work is whimsical. I have a very serious job. I cry more than I laugh.