“Frequently, things are seen as 'insurmountable' merely from a lack of know-how.”

“Often it isn’t the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.”

“From my Great-grandfather, not to have frequented public schools, and to have had good teachers at home, and to know that on such things a man should spend liberally.”

“Cosmetic decoration, which frequently distorts the data, will never salvage an underlying lack of content.”

“In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise. By a mere backward movement of stress, a verb can become a noun, an act a thing. To refuse, to insist on saying no to what you believe is wrong, becomes at a stroke refuse, an insurmountable pile of garbage.”

“The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true.”