What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?

Not for the first time, it occurred to me that sorrow could be purified into song the same way a piece of coal is purified into a diamond.

I could have happily moved in and left my own cold, dark house behind, pretended as if this family were my own: loud and teasing and good-natured, instead of the fractured broken truth.

My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.

The Egremonts had never said anything that was remembered, or done anything that could be recalled.

I guess subconsciously that all the great people you work with have an influence on you.

Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.

Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .

I suppose the old natural stuff would be ok, the old mushroom, but I wouldn't advise anyone to do it.

Over a long period of time, living as if you were someone else is no fun.