Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place.

We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.

God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train!

Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.

I used my daughter's crayons for each main character. One end of the wallpaper was the beginning of the story, and the other end was the end, and then there was all that middle part, which was the middle.

Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't compete successfully with poets.

In the water I am beautiful.