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

With words alone, Gail Godwin has created an important piece of music about a love which death can only increase and deepen. Yes, and Frances Halsband's illustrations are a haunting countermelody.

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."

Laughing is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.