The soil of a man’s heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.

a cloud-congested caul that is alternately red, orange, vermilion, purple. Sometimes the clouds break apart in great, slow rafts, letting through beams of innocent yellow sunlight that are bitterly nostalgic for the summer that has gone by.

A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.

The definition of an asshole is someone who doesn't believe what he is seeing.

You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all sane. And I think it is. I've had a lot of time to think about that. And what I keep coming back to is [her] dying declaration: 'So you understand that when we increase the number of variables, the axioms themselves never change.'

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

And she sees that the moonlight is losing its orange glow. It has become buttery, and will soon turn to silver.