Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the answers.

What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does.

There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.

Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.

Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which we place essentially undifferentiated things, things weaker than our words for them. We believe we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.

We only have one dog now. Calamity Jane had to be put down. She was very old, and her medicine no longer controlled her seizures. Dilly is five now, I think. He's a neutered American Pit Bull Terrier, very gentle, about the color of buckskin.

...in some situations winning consist[s] of disentangling oneself.