The other American divisions on our flanks managed to pull out: We were obliged to stay and fight. Bayonets aren't much good against tanks.

Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.

Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes.

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.

All this happened, more or less.

What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.

All was forgiven. All living things were brothers, and all dead things were even more so.