“His experience and training should have taught him that families are the cauldrons in which violence is brewed. (144)”

“The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women...Every girl in the world should have geisha training.”

“His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London.”

“My experience of men had long ago taught me that one of the surest ways of begetting an enemy was to do some stranger an act of kindness which should lay upon him the irritating sense of an obligation.”

“We have been trained by a culture of violence and we are all agents of passive violence.”

“his wartime experience had taught him to trust his instincts, even though he'd never been sure where they'd come from.”