You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, th…

- Peter Abrahams

What do you get out of hating people, out of having this bitterness in your heart always?

- Peter Abrahams

Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps.

- Peter Abrahams

They say life is all about connecting, like that's a good thing. But when brain and eyes are lining up you know different.

- Peter Abrahams

Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere

- Peter Abrahams

To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered. Just being nice was not enough.

- Peter Abrahams

To live with the conscious knowledge of the shadow of uncertainty, with the knowledge that disaster or tragedy could strike at any time; to be afraid…

- Peter Abrahams

You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your badness.

- Peter Abrahams

The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.

- Peter Abrahams