I've built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself. Who could like somebody like that?

“Each day the sun would rise and set, the flag would be raised and lowered. Each…”

“Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m…”

“What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for--and to do it …”

“Homem, mulher ou cão, não se pode dizer que existam muitos seres humanos que me…”