“He has been taught in his head, but his heart has not been satisfied, and he goes away still hungry.”
“All his life he has avoided permanent intimacy. Till this war he has been a better lover than husband. He has been a man who slips away, in the way lovers leave chaos, the way thieves leave reduced houses.”
“A good teacher teaches what he has been taught. A wise one teaches what he has learned”
“Israfel has long been a house of cards, and he has been disturbed. He can feel his supports collapsing, day by day.”
“He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.”
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”