He tried juggling with raw eggs – but only once.

Berg paid his way with stories.

The rhythms of the game complemented the lifestyle he preferred.

Potential was a red herring to plot a life of wandering curiosity.

Berg was proud of his storytelling to the point where he collected stories about telling stories.

A father's aim is to raise children who themselves raise good citizens.

Damn there were days being a woman confused the hell out of her.- Aella

The Culture gives us so much, but in fact it’s only taking things away from us, lobotimizings everybody in it, taking away their choices, their potential for being really good or even slightly bad.

Because I'm a monster, like my father before me and his father before him, and so on. There is no help for me.

If you're going to play the game [politics] properly, you'd better know every rule.

I stay active and choose to associate myself with like-minded people.

We perhaps need to snatch happiness in little pieces, learning to recognize the elements of happiness and then treasuring them while they last.

Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world, a world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans.

My uncle used to love me, but she died.

It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs.

Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls.