“Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.”

“When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad.”

“Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them.”

“It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.”

“Maybe sometimes you just feel like everything can be taken from you all at once.”

“But I discovered that people like me -- they do, you know, if you like them -- and then it was all right.”

“Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.”

“No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.”

“It was a touching sight that aged negro kneeling at the feet of the tall, gaunt-looking man who seemed in himself to be bearing all the grief of the nation, and whose sad face seemed to say, 'I suffer for you all, but will do all I can to help you.”

“You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you?”