There is no loss, if you cannot remember what you have lost. — Catherine Webb

"The roads were defined merely by the place where the mud was most pressed down."

"Time was simple, is simple. We can divide it into simple parts, measure it, arrange dinner by it, drink whisky to its passage. We can mathematically deploy it, use it to express ideas about the observable universe, and yet if asked to explain it in simple language to a child–in simple language which is not deceit, of course–we are powerless. The most it ever seems we know how to do with time is to waste it."

"Complexity should be your excuse for inaction."

"Men must be decent first and brilliant later, otherwise you’re not helping people, just servicing the machine."

"Surely even the most vehement of ideologues couldn’t find anything wrong with Norway?"

"“Politics,” he spat. “Everyone is always looking for material to use against everybody else.”"