How often the rich like to play at being poor. A rather nasty game, I've always thought.

God forgives those who invent what they need.

I wanted to see what was there for me once, what is there for me now.

We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.

People change and forget to tell each other.

Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.

Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that I know about, certainly without the usual reason of unhappy memories. For many years that worried me, but then I discovered that the tales of former children are seldom to be trusted. Some people supply too many past victories or pleasures with which to comfort themselves, and other people cling to pains, real and imagined, to excuse what they have become.