He feared at certain moments that the only new knowledge he would take away from this country was learning how to swim and use the telephone.

All of them would understand, as he did now, that he had crossed a line in himself, he had left their world behind, the decent world of tea parties and suburban witticisms.

What he sensed more than anything else was kindness – a kindness of a human and immediate sort. It was surprising how very radical this simple emotion could be.

The Indians were inside their bodies, he decided, in a way that the British were not. His own flesh impeded his spirit.

I am happy to see you, Maso

It is always an attractive moment when curiosity takes hold.

A silence followed, while the two men contemplated dying for love.

What I don’t understand about your type is that you want to emulate the other side. You kick up such a commotion about being different, and all you want is to be the same.

Of what earthly use were novels? How did they help anybody?

Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.

[B]egin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in.

Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.

I'm in great shape, back-in-my-football-days shape. I've worked hard to get to this point.

UCF stayed with me all the way, so I felt I should stay with them.

Commentors to the Blog suggested Nick should take the Independent for every penny.

The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.

We live in the most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, and I get the sense that because of that reality so many of us are turning nativist.

Trading gives you an incredibly intense feeling of what life is all about.

Scott Fitzgerald is a sound you like to hear at certain times of the day, say at four in the afternoon and again late at night, and at other times it makes you slightly sick.