How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?

A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

Beef. Yes. Roast beef. It's the Swedish term for beef that is roasted.

When trouble strikes, head to the library. You will either be able to solve the problem, or simply have something to read as the world crashes down around you.

All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found

When you say, "History is written by the winners," you like to think about someone who isn't you. You want to think, "Oh, that's the juggernaut I'm standing against." But you're probably part of it.

One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at the time.