“I'm just another stupid human.”

“No, I'm not a saint, Sophie. I'm just another stupid human.”

“Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?”

“He was hanging from one of the rafters in a laundry up near Frau Diller's. Another human pendulum. Another clock, stopped.”

“You're far from this. This story is just another few hundred pages of your mind.”

“I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty and I wonder how the same can be both.”

“You might well ask just what the hell he was thinking. The answer is, probably nothing at all.He'd probably say he was exercising his God-given right to stupidity.”