“Telling the truth is always wrong if it threatens those for whom being wrong can never be true.”

“He was inefficient in the old sense of the word; not incapable, but unwilling to be seduced by work--unwilling to be singleminded. Those things that needed to be done were constantly put off for those things that needed to be thought about. And unfinished projects did not pester him to be completed, but represented, in themselves, thoughts he had not finished thinking....”

“We are not separate, and I want you to know that. We are all part of one thing, and nothing good has ever passed or ever can pass away. There is no way out, but there is a way in, and when one person feels lonely like a ghost it touches us all.”

“We are all connected in ways we cannot even begin to fathom. Our lives unfold through each other and within each other. What one suffers, we all feel. What one does changes others forever.”

“[He] accepted me for what I was and it wasn't fair of him not to give me the same chance to accept him in the same way.”

“The truth is only dangerous if it can inflict injury.”

“Those who appeared to be victims were always the easiest to victimize.”