I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.

Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.

justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.