...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.

Perhaps you'd care for a synonym bun," suggested the duke.

...it's very much like your trying to reach infinity. You know that it's there, you just don't know where-but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.

Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.

...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.