“Move on. Be well. Go for it!”

“A good wife would have sorted him out and put him on the right road..." There comes that right road again. I wonder where it is? Imogen thought”

“The midwife considers the miracle of childbirth as normal, and leaves it alone unless there's trouble. The obstetrician normally sees childbirth as trouble; if he leaves it alone, it's a miracle.”

“I don't write like this in order to show how clever and well read I am--though I am rather clever and well read as a matter of fact.”

“In the absence of biblical conviction, people will go the way of culture.”

“Under Capitalism the most important thing is to squeeze out more and more money for a few people to spend. This means that most of the other people -- as well as the earth and the sea and all the creatures and plants and goggas -- have to pay the price.”

“To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.”