You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.

Those who are made can be unmade.

Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.

History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.

Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter nights, that the contents have seeped into me as if by osmosis.

I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.

Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.