Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.

Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.

No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen...You shouldn't have a baby if there's no one who wants to feel it kick or listen to it move.

Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean - make sure they know what they mean!

You can't learn everything you need to know legally.

He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.

He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson