"Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother."

"I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident."

"My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people."

"For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not."

"Solitude vivifies; isolation kills."

"What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks."

"Stand firm when justice demands it, even if you stand entirely alone. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery."

"Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up."