I finally understood what could drive kids to show up with guns and shoot up their schools.

Too bad I love you, you'd be dead by now

Professionals never guess—they make it their business to know their business.

My father spoke French with a Bank of Montreal accent.

Teach people how to treat you

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

I just want to keep doing what I feel.

So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook? Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is.

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.