“There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.”

“The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again.”

“Because sometimes people who seem goodend up being not as good as you might have hoped.”

“my mother, poor fish,wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: “Henry, smile!why don’t you ever smile?”and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was thesaddest smile I ever saw”