Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.

No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.

I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.

And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' Did she ever come out?' Not yet.

And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.

If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.

Have you ever noticed when you look in a mirror, unless youre really depressed or something, the person in the mirror generally looks a little more competent, a little more curious, a little more intelligent than you actually feel yourself to be? They often look more interesting and more soulful.