I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy.

Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true.

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.

If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book.

I think we'll always miss our parents. But I think we can miss them without being miserable all the time. After all, they wouldn't want us to be miserable.

Fetching objects for people who are too lazy to fetch them for themselves is never a pleasant task, particularly when the people are insulting you.

Keep anyone with whom you can read in silence.