Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

I'm a married man. If I want sex at this particular point in my life I go home for it.

There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness the volatility the wholesale lack of impulse control all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence they're just part of the behavioral portfolio.

Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.

Although I have lived in London I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me and it has been too.