We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future.

We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.

It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.

You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.

If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

I am also four, and twelve, and fifteen, and twenty-three, and thirty-one, and forty-five and . . . and . . . and . . .