...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them.

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.

A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.

A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

The dairy man had a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he must have had some training in philosophy. He liked what he was doing and he didn't want to be somewhere else - one of the few contented people I met in my whole journey.

There is comfort in routine.