We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — 'Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it.'
I'm not a present, I'm a gift.
The value or worth of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.