1. "It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless."
2. “It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
3. "It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless."
4. “It is very nearly impossible...to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.”
5. “Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."
6. "Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
7. "Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex: you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did."
8. “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
9. "The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment."
10. “The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.”
11. "The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out."
12. “The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did--which was to hide.”
13. "You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive."
14. "You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself."
