"Hurry it up! I want to be in hell in time for dinner."

“The night is shattered, and the blue stars shiver in the distance.”

“Benjamin Franklin refused to have one of his children vaccinated against smallpox. The four-year-old boy died, and Franklin wrote later of how mistaken he was to expose him to the needless risk.”

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“I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?”

“Cancer got me over unimportant fears, like getting old.”

“I can bear scorpion's stings, tread fields of fire, in frozen gulfs of cold eternal lie, be tossed aloft through tracts of endless void, but cannot live in shame.”

“My playing had called to another human being at last. Surely, she could be no other than my own true love. Slowly, I got to my feet. Speak to me, I thought. And as if she'd heard me, the young woman's lips parted and she spoke thus: Have you lost your mind?”

“Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book.”

“Love is a feeling that comes into our hearts of our own choice for neither force nor harshness can limit the heart's freedom.”