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“I didn’t know then and I’m still not sure now, but an island is one thing when a man has a boat, quite another when he doesn’t.”
“No sense in pestering a man with a gun.”
“People don’t want much until they have plenty, and then they want more and more.”
Osh looked at me so hard I thought I might break. “What’s wrong?” I asked him. “Not a thing,” he said. “I’m just looking at you. Exactly as you are right now. And not because you’ll change, though you will, of course. Treasure or not. But because if I could have built a human being, I would have built you. Just so.”