I am not sorry, but this has hurt my heart and spirit more than all the other trials, for being forsaken is worse than being killed. (Sept 5, 1881)
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.
Love is just a contact of no refusal.
Jon smiled at him. I'm sorry about your wrist. Robb used the same move on me once, only with a wooden blade. It hurt like seven hells, but yours must be worse. Look, if you want, I can show you how to...
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit...
Ignorance is the greatest slave master in the universe.
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.