There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web?

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they

But we have received a sign, Edith - a mysterious sign. A miracle has happened on this farm... in the middle of the web there were the words 'Some Pig'... we have no ordinary pig." "Well", said Mrs. Zuckerman, "it seems to me you're a little off. It seems to me we have no ordinary spider.