“I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.”
“I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!”
“I had already seen the end of fall come through boyhood, youth and young manhood, and in one place you could write about it better than in another. That was called transplanting yourself, I thought, and it could be as necessary with people as with other sorts of growing things.”
“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”
“i hate leaving places i love i was never at one place long. am i selfish?”
“I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”