. . . for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process.
It’s funny, most people can be around someone and then gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened
Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.
I just know there's an albino living in the colored quarters. I can feel it in my bones.
The ones that hurt the most always say the least.
No matter what you look like, there's somebody who's gonna think you're the handsomest man in the world.
I brought a picture with me that I had at home, of a girl in a swing with a castle and pretty blue bubbles in the background, to hang in my room, but that nurse here said the girl was naked from the waist up and not appropriate. You know, I've had that picture for fifty years and I never knew she was naked. If you ask me, I don't think the old men they've got here can see well enough to notice that she's bare-breasted. But, this is a Methodist home, so she's in the closet with my gallstones.
A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.
I don't think you should do things in your personal life differently because you're a role model.
. . . smoking is just a habit. 'Tolstoy', she said, mentioning someone I hadn't met, 'says that just as much pleasure can be got from twirling the fingers'. My impulse was to tell her Tolstoy was off his onion, but I choked down the heated words. For all I know, the man might be a bosom pal of hers and she might resent criticism of him, however justified.
The one thing I'd thought of is that we spend most of our lives in survival time. There's a sense of hanging off the ledge, trying to tread water, trying to keep ahead of the deadlines or the business of the city.