Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor

Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

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

You have to be careful who you let define your good.

People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.