“Humanity is best described as inhumanity.”

“La única palabra que describe la bondad es bondad, y no es bastante.”

“Because we're human. Like everyone else. And the older we get, the more human we get. The more human we get, the more painful everything becomes. ”

“The human soul can always use a new tradition. Sometimes we require them.”

“My irritation with Niles was growing, though. I had always thought the quiet man was the most overrated form of human life".”

“No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.”

“Looking around, I thought the human species was in fine shape and tried to think of something more beautiful than women and couldn't come up with a thing. The propagation of the species was a dance of total joy.”