People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard to be misinformed.

Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.

See the cat? See the cradle?

He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent.

There isn’t any particular relationship between the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce an image of life that is beautiful and surprising and deep. There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.

Until you die .. it's all life.