"Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearn…"

"likewesaid, we'lldowhatwecan. Trytoreconnectyou, towhatyouwant," said the Sheep Man. "Butwecan'tdoit-alone. Yougottaw…"

"But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by…"

"You burn barns. I don't burn barns. There's this glaring difference, and to me, rather than say which of us is strang…"

"I said this one day to the doctor in charge of my case, and he told me that, in a sense, what I was feeling was right…"

"Mediocrity is like a spot on your shirt, it never comes off."

"Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy. Sure, I'd gotten …"

"The world would be a pretty dull place if it were made up only of the first-rate, right?"

"Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he's experie…"

"“That's wrong," she declared. "Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it …"