Appearance matters a great deal because you can often tell a lot about people by looking at how they present themselves.

The children of this world and the adults of this world are in entirely separate boats and only drift near each other when we need a ride from someone or when someone needs us to wash our hands.

An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead of complaining about it they sat up all night and invented the game of chess so that everyone else in the world, on evenings when there is nothing to do, can also be bored by the perplexing and tedious game they invented.

Wherever there’s a conductor, you’re sure to find a dead composer!

The whole thing of what I’ve been trying,” you said, “is that you’re different, and you keep asking about the other girls, but what I mean is that I don’t think about them, because of the way you are.

The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught.

I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday.