“A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the one who is listening.”

“For those who belong nowhere, and for those who belong to one place too much to belong anywhere else.”

“Blame or credit, does not belong to the child alone. Parents, those who raised the child, must be given equal credit, or blame. That does not change, when the child is one, twenty or ninety years old.”

“When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor.”

“It is a law of the story-teller's art that he does not tell a story. It is the listener who tells it. The story-teller does but provide him with the stimuli.”

“She would do anything, anything to belong to his son after a lifetime of belonging to no one at all.”