Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however slightly, and I am at once seized by a shivering violent enough to make me dizzy.

For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.

He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.

After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it.

I have sometimes thought that I have been burdened with a pack of ten misfortunes, any one of which if borne by my neighbor would be enough to make a murderer out of him.

Show me what you've written, " I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.

I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the ability to suffer.

Don't give in to fear. Be strong, like i know you are. An never give up, d'you unnerstand, never. No matter what happens.I stare at him.I won't, I says. I ain't no quitter, Pa.That's my girl.

The captain’s eyes betrayed what his countenance must conceal: the anguish of an ancient being who must honour his birthright by living beyond those whom he would have given much to keep.

We can sometimes love what we do not understand but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.

There was a typewriter buried alive in that horse, the one I road to get out of the flood.

I take life for what it has to offer me. I don't get aggravated about [getting older]. The wrinkles on my face are a natural process, so why should I get angry?

Government doesn't work. You work, I work, Federal Express works, Microsoft works, the Salvation Army works, Alcoholics Anonymous works, but government doesn't.

Southwest Airlines is successful because the company understands it's a customer service company. It also happens to be an airline.

I see something in her eyes, sends me to a better place.

He was a 'how' thinker, not an 'if' thinker.