I am not a saint or a cripple, I am not a wound; now I will see whether I am a coward.

If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say.

For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it.

She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.

There is no fool like an educated fool.

It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even if they purport to be about rabbits or robots.

...how much needless despair has been caused by a series of biological mismatches, a misalignment of the hormones and pheromones? Resulting in the fact that the one you love so passionately won't or can't love you. As a species we're pathetic that way: imperfectly monogamous.