I am! I have come through! I belong!

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

You know being born is important to you. You know nothing else was ever so important to you.

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish.

The sea is always the same: and yet the sea always changes.

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.