Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

Everything human is alien to me.

Life is a long failure of understanding ... a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.

Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not.

One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness.

And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.

How easy it was to lie when one had to lie!

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?

The grace by which our world relies, Is man’s ability to do good. But judgment seeks to condemn in our eyes, the times in which we could

Love is like taking a leap, Darragh. You don't know when you step off the ledge if the drop is six inches or six thousand feet. What matters is you jump.

Teaching starts with Tests.

Getting unstuck is a matter of choice. If you want flourish in life make a choice today to move into that reality. You can do it.

Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck a work-dirt on it.

They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?

In my time it was different. When I knew the wind was strong, I attacked myself to make the race as hard as possible.

The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food.

I love you, cold, unfeeling robot arm!

Well, I don't have much job security.