“If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.”
“The world could screech to a halt on its axis and the dock could be swept out to sea in an apocalyptic current, and we wouldn't notice. Our universes have condensed into each other.”
“We'd both been pushing at the walls of our secret world, pushing at each other. We'd give each other everything we could.”
“The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.”
“You can't truly hate someone until you've cared about them. Until you've loved them.”
“I know what it's like. To sabotage yourself. Nothing makes you hate yourself more than that.”