“I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.”
“Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer.”
“I said, "I do not fear those pants with nobody inside them." I said, and said, and said those words. I said them but I lied them. ”
“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
“Everyday God gives us a moment in which it is possible to change everything that makes us unhappy.”
“I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so.”