Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled.

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning—from "I" to "we". If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin were results, not causes, you might survive. But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I", and cuts you off forever from the "we".

Then it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have?" "Probably better," Lancelot said. "Certainly safer.

It's almost impossible to read a fine thing without wanting to do a fine thing.

He never forgot anything but he never bothered to arrange his memories. -Hazel, Cannery Row

The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open...Why, that makes a man great...He can choose his course and fight it through and win...I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest'. ch 24