“One can't work/by limelight.//A bowlful/right at/one's elbow//produces no/more than/a baleful/glow against/the kitchen table.//The fruit purveyor's/whole unstable/pyramid//doesn't equal/what daylight did.”
“Why can't everyone be treated equally? Forgotten of what they did wrong, but remember their rights? Why can't the whole world just get along?”
“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”
“He’s sitting casually at my kitchen table peeling the skin off an applewith a pocket knife, a red apple that he has quite obviously appropriated from my fruit bowl, might I add.”
“An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.”
“People can be in love with more than one person. That doesn't mean there isn't one more special than the others, and that they can't end up with the one they should be with.”