to move the wheels of justice is a ponderous business.

The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer.

the boys had learned that laughter stilled anxiety. It cleared away mystery. If you could laugh at something, it erased its importance.

The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.

Sex as something beautiful may soon disappear. Once it was a knife so finely honed the edge was invisible until it was touched and then it cut deep. Now it is so blunt that it merely bruises and leaves ugly marks.