Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you're kidding.

They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.

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.

To stutter through it with you or even stop stuttering and say nothing, was so lucky and soft, better talk than mile-a-minute with anyone. After a few minutes we’d stop rattling, we’d adjust, we’d settle in, and the conversation would speed into the night.

Someone feeling wronged is like someone feeling thirsty. Don’t tell them they aren’t. Sit with them and have a drink.

There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.

Beef. Yes. Roast beef. It's the Swedish term for beef that is roasted.