“First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.”
“And like my dad always said, the first step is always the hardest.”
“[When things go badly] Instead of becoming alienated from their faith in God, wouldn't it make more sense for them to become alienated from their mislaid hopes in human beings, alienated from shallow notions of automatic progress, from sentimental notions about the 'nobility of man'?”
“Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.”
“Conveniently then he can forget it all exists. And, after a time only a general notion will remain in his mind, that there are places where he doesn't belong, and those where he seems to fall right in.”
“My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.”