There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

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

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love. When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.

He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.

We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.

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.