"She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation."

“Nearly half a century has passed since Watson proclaimed his manifesto. Today, apart from a few minor reservations, the vast majority of psychologists, both in this country and in America, still follow his lead. The result, as a cynical onlooker might be tempted to say, is that psychology, having first bargained away its soul and then gone out of its mind, seems now, as it faces an untimely end, to have lost all consciousness.”

“It was just so elaborate and so luxurious. We had every gadget imaginable. You know, I had the little gun that came out, and I had the little gun in the heel of the shoe.”

“You'd be surprised how much free time I have.”

Source : "Why will the likes of Straw and Rifkind never learn? Because they are addicted to being liked" by Ian Jack, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2015.

“The idea that I should become President seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.”

“IF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE COULD LEARN WHAT I KNOW OF THE FIERCE HATRED OF THE PRIESTS OF ROME AGAINST OUR INSTITUTIONS, OUR SCHOOLS, OUR MOST SACRED RIGHTS, AND OUR SO DEARLY BOUGHT LIBERTIES, THEY WOULD DRIVE THEM OUT AS TRAITORS!”

“We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.”

“Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.”

Source : Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.59, Macmillan

“Shiatsu, deep-tissue or maybe even Rolfing: Which manner of pummeling becomes a cephalopod most?”