Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.

My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature

Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life.

For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird

Time, for a man who has never truly felt a second of it, it not a great sacrifice

All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did.

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.