If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots I would burn my [Gulliver's] Travels.
I probably did too much thinking in India. I blame it on the roads, for they were superb.
But wherever there is man, there must be some sort of route
In London it had seemed impossible to travel without the proper evening clothes. One could see an invitation arriving for an Embassy ball or something. But on the other side of Europe with the first faint tinges of faraway places becoming apparent and exciting, to say nothing of vanishing roads and extra weight, Embassy balls held less significance.
The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it.
In the enclave, the strong and the physically perfect survived, but if you were strong, you protected the weak until they had an opportunity to grow into their own power.
If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
Chaos is lawless behavior governed entirely by law.
Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were, not writers.