Be fruitful, and multiply.

Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

Well, there was stuff going on, heroic events. One was what used to be, and probably still is, the largest moving project in history. The headquarters of the Bell Telephone Company used to be brick. What they did was take the old brick building - with the operators in there saying, "Number please" and all that - and they put it through a quarter of a turn and moved it half a block!

Has any psychological experiment yielded a more delightful suggestion than this one: that there is a part of the mind without ambition or information, which nonetheless is expert on what is beautiful?

Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive.

I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.