“It never seems to occur to such "criminals" that to behave with decency to another human being might also be "gratuitous.”
“And they're also very foolish, because no human being can ever make another human being completely happy. Human beings are far too imperfect for that.”
“Never to be squandered.....the miracle of another human being.”
“Sometime before sleep it occurred to me that the true nature of being without might mean never knowing what one lacked.”
“And it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.”
“I guess there isn’t a rule book for what might be unacceptable to do to another human being.”