Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.

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.

Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.

The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.