“All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent”

“We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent. ”

“When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward and minces up with a lot of other things already there and what comes out is discontent and uneasiness, guilt and a compulsion to get something--anything--before it is all gone.”

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”

“I wonder how many people I have looked at all my life and never really seen.”

“It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.”

“Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides white rapids in a canoe. But Tom got into a book, crawled and groveled between the covers, tunneled like a mole among the thoughts, and came up with the book all over his face and hands”