Courage is the highest quality for a soldier, but technology is a fine substitute.

Men invented money Women invented mutual aid

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all.

I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention if only one can first conceive of doing so.

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs floating in it, and eavesdropped on a pair of Shetland pony breeders. Despondency makes one hanker after lives one never led. Why have you given your life to books, TC? Dull, dull, dull! The memoirs are bad enough, but all that ruddy fiction! Hero goes on a journey, stranger comes to town, somebody wants something, they get it or they don't, will is pitted against will. "Admire me, for I am a metaphor.