A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.

The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life and will therefore furnish you with a basic sherry, but refuses to catch your eye.

To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.

I don’t know what I’m looking for.” “What not?” “Because … because … I think it might be because if I knew I wouldn’t be able to look for them.

It was none the less a perfectly ordinary horse, such as convergent evolution has produced in many of the places that life is to be found. They have always understood a great deal more than they let on. It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them.

Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.