I’m not good at being a hero, but I’ll try if it means I get to be your man.
To men like that, time was a surfeit, a barrel they watched slowly drain. When really, he thinks, it’s a glowing puddle you carry in your hands; you should spend all your energy protecting it.
Mental life is a series of experiments in adaptation.
The novel is the most complete and profound expression of human liberty.
 On the path to truth, only the brave can persist to the end.