She showed all that maternal solicitude which so oddly hopes that its child will be outstanding while being absolutely normal, distinguished while be… - John Wyndham

It was so absurd to die at sixty, anyway, and, as he saw it, it would be even more wasteful to die at eighty. A scheme of things in which the wisdom acquired in living was simply scrapped in this way was, to say the least, grossly inefficient. What did it mean? That somebody else would have to go through the process of learning all that life had already taken sixty years to teach him; and then be similarly scrapped in the end. No wonder the race was slow in getting anywhere—if, indeed, it were getting anywhere—with this cat-and-mouse, ten-forward-and-nine-back system.

I suppose we all have a number of carefully furnished, non-communicating rooms in our minds.

It's all pretty simple if you don't give a damn who gets hurt in the rush.