Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction

What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't have that smell.

Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.

Two people who are a little bit deluded in each other's favour. That's what love is, isn't it?

War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.

She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.

The act of memory is an act of ghostwriting.