“I wanted to do something decent at last, and I wanted to be rewarded for my decency.p 284”

“...I was tired of throwing still more experiences onto the bonfire of my own confusion. It was bright enough already, and cast its light as far as I could see.p 284”

“It was just the human story again, flowing through me as it did through everyone else, and I'd mistaken it as my own.p 284”

“...hers was the heartlessness of poverty, which, it seemed to me, is different from the heartlessness of wealth.p 290”

“Children are not entirely human. There is a lot of the animal left in them.about the girl who needed her foot amputated. p170”

“Only the effort of walking calmed me, and allowed me to think at all.p 227”

“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.”