Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.

He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure.

... a man is a very important thing-maybe more important than a star.

She wasn't happy, but then she wasn't unhappy. She wasn't anything. But I don't believe anyone is a nothing. There has to be something inside, if only to keep the skin from collapsing. This vacant eye, listless hand, this damask cheek dusted like a doughnut with plastic powder, had to have a memory or a dream.

No one wants advice - only corroboration.

It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge intime, toprotest againstchange, particularlychangefor the better.

He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it.