This knowledge sits in my heart, heavy as a paperweight.

One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of oone's history.

The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for an answer.

If you know somebody very well, like your grandmother or your baby sister, you will know when they are real and when they are fake.

Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.

Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there may be situations when it will not come in handy at all.

Why haven't we fixed sick yet? You scientists there-- put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the people who are good at math make the world free of illness. The rest of us will write you epic poems and staple them together into a booklet.