There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.

[A]nd soon now we shall go out of the house and go into the convulsion of the world, out of history into history and the awful responsibility of Time.

The past is always a rebuke to the present.

What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract storm.

Nobody had ever told me that anything could be like this.

You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.