It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.

Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm grown up. Some people never grow up. And nobody ever finishes growing. Or shouldn't. If you stop you might as well quit. What I have to tell you is that it never gets any easier. It goes right on being rough forever. But nothing that's easy is worth anything. You ought to have learned that by now. What happens as you keep on growing is that all of a sudden you realize that it's more exciting and beautiful than scary and awful.

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast

It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends.

You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children

The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.

In my dreams, I never have an age.