“Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up.”
“You give people a little money and they lose all their manners, even the ones who had manners to begin with.”
“By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.”
“To begin with, I had never done any good deeds; besides, even if I had simply fabricated a few, I would not have enjoyed going on about them.”
“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.”
“Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.”