“There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes matter worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and that the only source is a stranger.”
“There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.”
“I must be cruel only to be kind;Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.”
“If I had any kind of creed in regard to living among strangers, it was this: once could criticize one's own place, indeed one had a duty to do so, but when crossing a cultural border one left behind judgements as to how life should be organized”
“Maybe people are strangers because time makes them strangers, not because you don't know them, and people you've never met are strangers because you've spent so long not knowing them.”
“There is no good or bad author; there is only one kind of an author, that who connects with the readers.”