“At Shimer we paid no attention to disciplinary boundaries; we blithely followed problems wherever they led. For better or for worse, I’ve never been able to shake this approach.”

“Truly, whoever we are, wherever we reside, we exist upon the whim of murderers.”

“We are much better able to evaluate someone else's behavior than we are our own.”

“What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”

“I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.”

“He had a problem, like any other problem. The problem just hadn't been well posed. The problem was: Should he leave Penny or not?”

“There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive. ”