You would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff.

You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.

Sometimes, just saying that you hate something, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation.

13. 99 percent is a very large percentage. For instance, easily 99 percent of people want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, and the occasional slice of cake for dessert. Surely an arrangement can be made with that niggling 1 percent who disagree.

So you’re reluctant, I said to myself. Many, many people are reluctant. It’s like having feet. It’s nothing to brag about.

It is always cruel to laugh at people, of course, although sometimes if they are wearing an ugly hat it is hard to control yourself.

The way sadness works is one of the strangest riddles of the world.