“Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.”

“The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.”

“People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.”

“If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.”

“I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.”

“As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor”

“Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.”