There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding - John Knowles
Once again I had the desolating sense of having all along ignored what was finest in him. Perhaps it was just the incongruity of seeing him aloft and stricken, since he was by nature someone who carried others. I didn't think he knew how to act or even how to feel as the object of help. - John Knowles
I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case. - John Knowles