Good habits are worth being fanatical about.
No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.
He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly--as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth--the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives
Newspapers are even worse for me than ice cream; headlines, and the big issues that generate the headlines, are pure fat.