Elinor Lipman tweets like a nightingale with an eagle eye.

Life is full of surprises. Why is that always surprising?

a letter ... changes utterly the moment it slips inside an envelope. It stops being mine. It becomes yours. What I mean is gone. What you understand is all that remains.

All these years I've had a story in my mind, the story about us that never really existed. And because of that story, I've kept you framed up on the wall in a little box of nostalgic moonlight.

Love letters lack taste. No restraint: falling off cliffs, going up in flames.

One really understands testicles after reading 'The Family Jewels,' and one is gratified.

Use Me is a wonderfully satisfying book.

If having an imagination means imagining all the things you don't have - imagining, in fact, the impossibility of your own happiness - is an imagination a good thing?

But Fin would always be a bit of a romantic, at least when it came to books.

Leadership. Applies for weak and strong ones.

Be warned - Hammond does tend to be a bit optimistic about these kind of things. If the army were made up of one-legged mutes, he would praise their balance and their listening skills.

Whoever thirst for money is real victim of a capital illusion.

Clay lies still but blood's a rover Breath's a ware that will not keep Up lad when the journey's over There'll be time enough to sleep.

Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.

I'm a mixed breed and hope to live longer because of it.

Make your decisions with your heart, and you'll end up with heart disease.

People are strange. We're all morticians. Hey, what's on TV?

One does not become fully human painlessly.

Unfortunately, failure enjoys a natural advantage. Wrong answers to any problem outnumber right ones by a wide margin, and it seems that it will always be easier to break things than to fix them.