Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

But it's far too late for us; ring, hair, letters, photographs - all traces of our love will be scattered then, like an anagram.

People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.

Appearance matters a great deal because you can often tell a lot about people by looking at how they present themselves.

When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people.

Everybody has a theory.