I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.

I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

All that five thousand kids lived in those five thousand houses, owned by guys that got off the train. The houses looked so much alike that, time and time again, the kids went home by mistake to different houses and different families. Nobody ever noticed.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.

Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.