“There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.”

“If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse.”

“One question always leads to another question. Some things are better to wonder about.”

“People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.”

“I was well aware how famously or infamously secretive these old institutions can be, no more than ourselves, a mixture of worry, lost power, perhaps even concern. That the truth may not always be desirable, that one thing leads to another thing, that facts not only lead forward to resolution, but backwards into the shadows, and sometimes into the various little hells we make for each other.”

“My father always says one thing leads to another. It certainly does. I started out to buy a friend a birthday present, and I end up trying to get a factory to go with it....”