To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction — and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by. – Stephen Baker
I suppose if Id got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life. – A. N. Wilson
Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame. – Antonia S. Byatt
