“I'd never seen a man who could outshop me, but Jenks was a master.”

“From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize I'd never really tasted the things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been, because I'd thought of nothing but the Chairman even while my life was drifting away from me. And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.”

“It is to the man who is trying to live, to the man who is obedient to the word of the Master, that the word of the Master unfolds itself.”

“I was falling for the man who had turned me. He could never know.”

“The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!”

“People often tell me I could be a great man. I'd rather be a good man.”