“...if a person could be unreasonable, a family perhaps, could a whole town? If certain altitudes inhibit respiration, might sufficient density of lunacy inhibit reason, permit prodigies, break rules supposed to be unbreakable?”

“If, of all words of tongue and pen,The saddest are, 'It might have been,'More sad are these we daily see:'It is, but hadn't ought to be.”

“Of this he was certain: to be in her presence was to know delight in a more vivid sense than ever he had before.”

“There was, I think, a prevailingimpression common to the provincial mind, that his misfortune wasthe result of the defective moral quality of his being a stranger.”

“Those in power write the history, while those who suffer write the songs.”

“„Сегашният момент е най-важният в живота. Особено ако е последният ти идиотски момент. И с него приключва идиотския ти живот. Обременен с миналото, бременен с бъдещето. Той е вечен и безкраен. Времето не прилича на река, каквото и да си говорят. То по-скоро напомня езеро, локва, няколко пръста вода на дъното на катранен варел. Раждането на човек е събитие, нещо като камъче, падащо на повърхността на водата, което предизвиква поредица вълнички, устремени навън. Когато наблюдаваш вълничките, можеш да обхванеш целия рисунък едновременно, от центъра към външните окръжности. Правило ли ви е впечатление?”

“...trying to predict whether global warming will moderate the next ice age is not only impossible but irrelevant. It doesn't help us get through the next few centuries. And one can only imagine our future, shivering, ice age descendants cursing us for leaving them no fossil fuel to create a global warming "greenhouse" effect when one is really needed.”