Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.

It's okay to play turtle for a while, as long as you don't get too fond of your shell.

Isen wasn't a two birds with one stone kind of guy. More like one stone, two birds, a rabbit, a fox, and maybe that deer will trip over the fox and we can get him, too.

Living is very serious, very real. It is also always a game. If we are wise, it is very real, very terrible, and very lovely, and a good deal of fun.

What?" She drew herself up, stern as a cat presented with the wrong food for dinner.

Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.

My feelings were hurt. Once I started I couldn't seem to let it go. Be strange if the person who matters most in the whole world couldn't hurt your feelings, wouldn't it?