Be patient, Ophelia. Love, Hamlet

They were adored by the Germans, who thought they were exactly what Englishmen ought to be. They made war look stylish and reasonable, and fun... They were dressed half for battle, half for tennis or croquet.

Each one of us has to be what he or she is.

It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas.

Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.

When we passed a Catholic church, I recalled, he said, "You think your dad's a good chemist? They're turning soda crackers into meat in there. Can your dad do that?

We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You can't change history. History is happening to us now.