There is comfort in routine.

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.

But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and more precious.

The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little ‘why’.

As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself.

When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.