“I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring.”

“From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be true—he probably is.”

“Much of my life seems in retrospect to have been spent in the company of putative national leaders passing through the process of being denounced and imprisoned for sedition, as part of the inevitable progression towards the Prime Ministership and the ritual tea-party at Windsor Castle.”

“Life is too long to be good at C++ – if you had spent all that time to become good at it, you would essentially have to work with it, too, to get back the costs, and that would just be some long, drawn-out torture.”

“It seems that I have spent my entire time trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.”

“What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.”

“I will probably be too much for some people.

Those people are not My People.”

“Sometimes, the loneliness probably got to be too much and anyone seemed better than no one.”

“I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.”

“Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.”