Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.

I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.

I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.

Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.

History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.