The panic disappeared under those soothing old fingers and the breathing slowed down and stopped hurting the chest as if a fox was caught in it, and then at last Mr. Kroger began to lecture the boy as he used to, Pablo, he murmured, don't ever be so afraid of being lonely that you forget to be careful. Don't forget that you will find it sometimes but other times you won't be lucky, and those are the times when you have got to be patient, since patience is what you must have when you don't have luck.

The name of a person you love is more than language.

I know all about the tyranny of women.

I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together

And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.

But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary

Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn't love you.