Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.

Scolding must be very, very fun, otherwise children would be allowed to do it. It is not because children don’t have what it takes to scold. You need only three things, really. You need time, to think up scolding things to say. You need effort, to put these scolding things in a good order, so that the scolding can be more and more insulting to the person being scolded. And you need chutzpah, which is a word for the sort of show-offy courage it takes to stand in front of someone and give them a good scolding, particularly if they are exhausted and sore and not in the mood to hear it.

...that's not why we broke up. I love it, I miss it, I hate to give it back to you, this complicated thing, it's why we stayed together

Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.

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.

the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.

There are some things we might not know,but that doesnt mean we should give up.We can find out what we need to know.We can find out everything