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...when you placed one of these incomprehensible, monstrous objects so that it was reflected in the incomprehensible, monstrous mirror, a marvellous thing happened; minus by minus equaled plus, everything was restored, and the shapeless speckledness became in the mirror a wonderful, sensible image.

The difference between a tragedy of the heart and a comedy of errors is approximately a half-decade.

I asked for something entirely different; for me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those which had hidden Mount Sinai. Like Moses, from that cloud I expected my law, the principle of order in me, around me, and in the world.

What this book has to say about history, about the human spirit, about the human capacities for pride and love and wonder, it is no surprise that it has endured. That said, I am happy that I will be moving on to new, shorter, novels soon. And I think as far as completeness of character is concerned, Anna Karenina remains the greater of Tolstoy's epics.

THE END IS IN SIGHT.

A note to aspiring writers: it is important that if your character is fat, you must remind us readers of that frequently. But never say "fat" lest you offend us. "Corpulent," "ungainly," "hefty" are all preferable. Note: Pierre is fat, and every year makes him moreso.