For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.

My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.

One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.

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

But have you ever overheard two women discussing men? Men are crude liars, comparing their drabs, but women - I'd rather have [an] anatomist dissect me alive than to listen to the things the ladies say about us when they think they are alone.

All true wealth is biological.

The world is made by the people who show up for the job.