“When people start talking of man's inhumanity to man it means they haven't actually walked far enough.”

“A wise man has tolerance for such people. A wise man walks away or finds a means of changing the way they think.”

“I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.”

“The young man walks by himself, fast but not fast enough, far but not far enough (faces slide out of sight, talk trails into tattered scraps, footsteps tap fainter in alleys); he must catch the last subway, the streetcar, the bus, run up the gangplanks of all the steamboats, register at all the hotels, work in the cities, answer the wantads, learn the trades, take up the jobs, live in all the boardinghouses, sleep in all the beds. One bed is not enough, one job is not enough, one life is not enough. At night, head swimming with wants, he walks by himself alone.”

“When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.”

“That mans a walking, talking detonate button and you've just pressed it.”