The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find.

People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.

I've never really liked the Yanks. ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football.

When all else failed, she tried being reasonable.

I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet.

What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?

My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a box with the crowbar inside it.