Steven

"There is always apt to be that trouble when you start spreading sweetness and light. You find there isn't enough to go around and someone has to be left out of the distribution. Very difficult to get a full hand." (207)

"It was inconceivable to me that one should surrender to what seemed wrong, and most of the people I had met seemed wrong. Ought one to surrender to authority even if one believed that that authority was wrong? If the answer was yes, then I knew that

"It was inconceivable to me that one should surrender to what seemed wrong, and most of the people I had met seemed wrong. Ought one to surrender to authority even if one believed that that authority was wrong? If the answer was yes, then I knew that I would always be wrong, because I could never do it. Then how could one live in a world in which one's mind and perceptions meant nothing and authority and tradition meant everything? There were no answers." (165)

"I have no need to conceal anything or to hide anything, he said, with my eighty-two years I have no need to conceal or to hide anything at all, Reger said, and I therefore do not conceal the fact that suddenly I wept and wept again, that I wept agai

"I have no need to conceal anything or to hide anything, he said, with my eighty-two years I have no need to conceal or to hide anything at all, Reger said, and I therefore do not conceal the fact that suddenly I wept and wept again, that I wept again for days, Reger said. I sat there, looking at the letters which my wife had written to me over the years and the notes she had made over the years and just wept. Of course we get used to a person over the decades and eventually love them more than anything else and cling to them and when we lose them it is truly as if we had lost everything. I have always thought that it was music that meant everything to me, and at times that it was philosophy, or altogether that it was simply art, but none of it, the whole of art or whatever, is nothing compared to that one beloved person." (142-143)