Were talking about an attitude. Delayed gratification is there, planning, be able to give up something now to get something later.

You can't let facts get in the way of the truth.

It was like wondering how evil had come into the world or what happens to a person after he dies: an interesting philosophical exercise, but also curiously pointless, since evil and death happened, regardless of the why and the how and what-it-meant.

The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.

The mad sometimes drilled holes in their own heads to let the demons out. To relieve the pressure of thoughts they could no longer bear. Jude understood the impulse. Each beat of his heart was a fresh and staggering blow felt in the nerves behind his eyes and in his temples. Punishing evidence of life.

We'll have freedom, love and health/When the grand red flag is flying, In the Workers' Commonwealth.

The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies.