“You don’t want to lose the foreign feel of a book entirely, but for me the prime requisite is to get it sounding good in English. If it sounds clumsy, readers will pounce on it of course.”

“That doesn't sound like civil war to me," said Gaylen, turning back to his book with a smile. "It only sounds silly.""Of course it's silly," said the Prime Minister impatiently. "But a lot of serious things start silly.”

“Me too. Do you want to meet me at the golf course after you get off work tomorrow? Then we can see each other all afternoon.""That sounds good."Which it did. But even if she'd said "Do you want to meet me at the surface of the sun?" I'd still have agreed to it.”

“The feeling of death is not as peaceful as they make it sound in movies and books. It was frightening and empty...I never want to feel it again.”

“Don’t do that to me. Losing you would not be good for my mental health, get it?”

“It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.”