Robert Louis Stevenson

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

I'm feeling a little delicate.

People of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice but from a paralysing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice.