“Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.”

“It is obvious enough for the reader to conclude, "She loves young Emerson." A reader in Lucy's place would not find it obvious. Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice, and we welcome "nerves" or any other shibboleth that will cloak our personal desire. She loved Cecil; George made her nervous; will the reader explain to her that the phrases should have been reversed?”

“It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.”

“As much as any contemporary writer, Murakami grasps the bewildering fluidity of commoditized life.”

“Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.”

“He was one of those who are driven early in life into too conservative an attitude by the bewildering folly of most revolutionists.”