“Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.”
“The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.”
“Let's boogie,' he (Leo) said. 'Before I come to my senses”
“At least he possessed enough sense to recognize how little sense he possessed.”
“Certain places in the natural world still possess a strange, perhaps spiritual charge, which we can sense almost immediately.”
“After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.”