Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure

by Michael Chabon

I suppose we ought to pity him.” “Fine idea,” Amram said. “You go first.”

who expended all of his energies, as far as Joseph could see, on preserving his opinions from contamination by experience.

“To forgive is a great blessing,” Joseph said. “But it is a greater one still to allow oneself to be forgiven.”