“He obviously needed more practice, but no matter how often I abandoned him out there, his sense of direction never seemed to improve.”

“Breathing in the scent of his hair, I realized I'd needed him my whole life, before we even met. First, his music and the way he taught me through books and recordings. Then, he saved my life and refused to abandon me no matter how much I deserved it.”

“The hour has arrived to abandon theories and go directly to what is practical.”

“So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.”

“There are no guarantees of how things are going to work out. They’re actually working out the way they need to be working out, no matter how outrageous they seem.”

“His suspicion that he was not going in the right direction tortmented him more and more. At last he had the conviction that he would never go anywhere but in the wrong direction, to the very end of the handful of days that was left to him, unhappy moonstruck pilgrim, whose April was to be cut off short.”