Everybody has friends they dislike; people who they have slipped into relationships with, people they would not have chosen had they been more cautious, more circumspect.

Small things may be important to us; to be a sometime anything is sometimes something.

Lou knew that joy unshared was a halved emotion, just as sadness and loss, when borne alone, were often doubled.

Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology.

It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.

Ritual is a terribly important, binding cement in a society. If we abandon formality and rituals, we're actually weakening the relationships that exist between people that bind.

There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.