The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value knowledge. It was an exciting field.

I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination.

You know what getting married is? It's agreeing to taking this person who right now is at the top of his form, full of hopes and ideas, feeling good, looking good, wildly interested in you because you're the same way, and sticking by him while he slowly disintegrates. And he does the same for you. You're his responsibility now and he's yours. If no one else will take care of him, you will. If everyone else rejects you, he won't. What do you think love is? Going to bed all the time?

Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.

Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.

A horse herd was, in its very essence, the manifestation of the expression 'It's always something.