Murphy: Louis, the doctor lady... she's a Quaker. That's like bein' a bloody nun, isn't it?
Brezan: No, I don't think so.
Murphy: Why couldn't she be any young nurse? Something practical.
Brezan: You're a small and lonely man, Murphy. Like me. The world will never build us a monument. The difference is I know that.
Pablo Neruda: Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often.
Pablo Neruda: When you explain poetry, it becomes banal. Better than any explanation is the experience of feelings that poetry can reveal to a nature open enough to understand it.
