“If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy's history.”
“There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.”
“I am more aware of the world now, the tiny insignificant things especially. I am beginning to be more childlike. For an artist this may have some advantages.”
“Some men acheive insignificance. Others have insignificance thrust upon them.”
“Because some things that seem unimportant now can change the course of human history -- and I am a student of human history.”
“Some things were not possible in this world. Children did not have two parents who refused to love them. One, maybe, but for pity's sake, not two.”