Quotes
Some books I buy for their title, others for brevity. I love short books - the way you know from the first page that it's going to end.
The Internet: always proving that you’re not quite as special as you suspected.
p. 38
One of the things that makes Gell-Mann so insufferable is that he is almost always right.
p. 215
“Never have a mission, my dear child.”
“What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene, and joyful? Oh, yes! Therefore, my friends, I wish for peace, upon you and upon yours.”
“My experience teaches me, Lady Dedlock, that most of the people I know would do far better to leave marriage alone. It is at the bottom of three fourths of their troubles.”
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
“I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies!”
Well, I suppose we have to have young intellectuals, if we’re ever to survive to be middle-aged philosophers.
p. 84
Look, if I could guarantee what the results were going to be, I wouldn’t need a research program!
p. 57
There's really no fun in being sensible all the time, Diana.
Emily already knew there was going to be hell to pay, and she supposed there was no use allowing it to accrue interest.
p. 57
