"“Why not alter the habits of a lifetime and speak with candour?” asked Shimrod. “Truth, after all, need not be only the tactic of last resort."

"When you give up junk, you give up a way of life. I have seen junkies kick and hit the lush and wind up dea…"

"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies."

"There shall always be much silence in a man's conduct. He shall speak only about a matter concerned with wi…"

"Okay, this is the thing. We spend all our time doing, you know, stuff. Maintenance. Ninety-eight percent of…"

"And yet she had never felt so bereft, as if her presence in other lives were entirely illusory, as if she h…"

"Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the g…"