“When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.”

“It's frightening, she thinks, how when the going gets rough you fall back on whatever awful think you grew up with.”

“Isn't it awfully sad to thing that's all history amounts to, just following the next stupid fashion?”

“Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.”

“Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.”

“In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves.”

“Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.”