But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

Watch that boy. He's going to startle somebody someday.

If there’s one thing that makes a man sick, it’s to have his ale poured out of an ugly hand.

Happiness happens when you fit with your life, when you fit so harmoniously that whatsoever you are doing is your joy. Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

I felt rather exhausted, and wondered, rather shocked at my callous thought, why old people were sometimes such a strain. Worse than young children or puppies because one had to be polite.

Because I want to; because I must; because now and forever more this is where I belong to be.

He was like someone sleeping who woke suddenly and found the world...all the beauty of it, and the sadness too. The hunger and the thirst. Everything he had never thought about or known was there before him, and magnified into one person who by chance, or fate--call it what you will--happened to be me.