Sometimes words are not enough. There are some circumstances so utterly wretched that I cannot describe them in sentences or paragraphs or even a whole series of books.

When somebody is a little bit wrong - say, when a waited puts nonfat milk in your espresso macchiato, instead of lowfat milk - it is often quite easy to explain to them how and why they are wrong. But if somebody is surprisingly wrong - say, when a waiter bites your nose instead of taking your order - you can often be so surprised that you are unable to say anything at all. Paralyzed by how wrong the waiter is, your moth would hang slightly open and your eyes would blink over and over, but you would be unable to say a word.

...there's nothing wrong with occasionally staring out the window and thinking nonsense, as long as the nonsense is yours.

I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading almost the entire time.

I guess we’ll be traveling in uncharted waters.” “That’ll be fun,” Phil said.

Someone can break your heart, leave you dead on the lawn, and still you never learn what to say to stop it all over again.

If you try to avoid every instance of peer pressure you will end up without any peers whatsoever, and the trick is to succumb to enough pressure that you do not drive your peers away, but not so much that you end up in a situation in which you are dead or otherwise uncomfortable. This is a difficult trick, and most people never master it, and end up dead or uncomfortable at least once during their lives.