The question to ask about the writer isn't 'Why does he behave so badly?' but 'What does he gain by wearing this mask?

I think you're a wonder. You're beautiful. You're mature. You are, I admit, vastly more experienced than I am. That's what threw me. I was thrown. Forgive me.

Being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on.

The legend engraved on the face of the Jewish nickel- on the body of every Jewish child!- not IN GOD WE TRUST, but SOMEDAY YOU'LL BE A PARENT AND YOU'LL KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE.

Dreams? If only they had been! But I don't need dreams, Doctor, that's why I hardly have them—because I have this life instead. With me it all happens in broad daylight!

Everyone becomes a part of history whether they like it or not and whether they know it or not.

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.