“We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis, by daydream, by scientific investigation those leaden walls that encase the human spirit, that define it and guard it and hold it forever inaccessible.”

“SOMETIMES A NEIGHBOR WHOM WE HAVE DISLIKED A LIFETIME FOR HIS ARROGANCE AND CONCEIT LETS FALL A SINGLE COMMONPLACE REMARK THAT SHOWS US ANOTHER SIDE, ANOTHER MAN, REALLY; A MAN UNCERTAIN, AND PUZZLED, AND IN THE DARK LIKE OURSELVES.”