“They lie, you know. It's not easier to ask for forgiveness. Not even a little.”
“It's easier to ask forgiveness than to beg for permission.”
“It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.”
“It was easier to ask for forgiveness than permission?”
“When you're alive, people can hurt you. It's easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody out.But it's a lie.”
“As I helped him up, I felt him shake all over, so I asked him to forgive me, without knowing what for, but that was my lot, asking forgiveness, I even asked forgiveness of myself for being what I was, what it was my nature to be.”