There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.
A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.
He was like a child with haemophilia: every contact drew blood.
Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray in suitable surroundings.
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.