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1 " He tried to shape in his mind what he had to say to McDonald. It was a feeling; it was an urge that he had to speak. But whatever he spoke he knew would be but another name for the wildness that he sought. It was a freedom and goodness, a hope and a vigor that he perceived to underlie all the familiar things of his life, which were not free or good or hopeful or vigorous. What he sought was the source and preserver of his world, a world which seemed to turn ever in fear away from its source, rather than search it out, as the prairie grass around him sent down its fibered roots into the rich dark dampness, the Wildness, and thereby renewed itself, year after year. "
― John Williams
2 " rather awkwardly shy and therefore at times defensive and rather too assertive "
3 " He had a glimpse at the figure that flitted through the smoking rooms and pages of cheap fiction -a pitiable fellow in his middle age, seeking to renew his youth by taking up with a girl who was much younger ... a fatuous, garishly got up clown at whom the world laughed out of discomfort, pity, and contempt. He looked at this figure as closely as he could; but the longer he looked the less familiar it became. It was not himself that he saw, and he knew suddenly that it was no-one. "
4 " Il professore era un uomo di mezza età, poco più che cinquantenne. Si chiamava Archer Sloane e svolgeva il suo incarico di insegnante con un'aria di apparente sdegno e disprezzo, come se avvertisse, tra il suo sapere e la possibilità di trasmetterlo, un abisso così profondo che era inutile tentare di colmarlo "
5 " Liefde is geen eindpunt, maar een proces, waarin de een probeert de ander te leren kennen. "
