[S]he'd realized that he had loved her only because she belonged to him.

I guess it's the same way trees grow around the very vines that are killing them, so they're strangled and sustained all at once. After a long time, even pain can be a comfort.

I learned to swallow words back, hold secrets on my tongue until they dissolved like soap bubbles.

I guess we all have some of these - memories like artillery shells, fired at close range.

This was progress. This was modernity: you could cover over the past completely. You could bury the old under a relentless surface of new, stretched from corner to corner.

But those are just words, and words are just stories, and eventually, always, stories come to an end.

Stop your idiocy, Sandra, please. For once in your death.

One of the most healing things you can do is recognize where in your life you are your own poison.

Pizza tastes better than broccoli and opinion tastes better than news.

A minute teaches me sixty different ways to think about you.

There's precedent for adjudicatory proceedings on technology issues to have massive consumer and business benefits. One of the most famous was the so-called Carterfone decision in 1968.

Pray; and as you pray, surrender; and as you surrender, believe.

What the deuce is to do now?

Now [Mike] Gove has destroyed Boris Johnson.

O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.

My favorite mode of communication is in the world beyond: a dream, to see in a dream. My second favorite is correspondence.

Do you think there is any other means of achieving progress except through Rajas?