No point in thinking, you just have to get on with life. We only have one after all, we should try and do our best. We can never get it right, but we must try.

Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance.

I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.

He was born a politician. No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this is what he has chosen to become.

Become such as you are, having learned what that is.

You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.