Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.

The city was blacked out because bombers might come, so Billy didn't get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful things a city can do when the sun goes down, which is to wink its lights on one by one.

All was forgiven. All living things were brothers, and all dead things were even more so.

The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm.

Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.

I learned how to make jokes because I wanted to give people as much fun as they did, and I guess I did, too.