I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.

Wikipedia is so dangerous. You go online to look up the definition of eclampsia, and three hours later you find yourself reading this earnest explanation of tentacle porn in [Japanese] anime.

Yes," Vorkosigan agreed, "I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all their weapons pointed in the same direction.

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.

I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.

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