Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things. - Humbug

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

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden character or essence of whatever we want to describe, and through the use of fancy, association, contrast, extension, or imagination, to enlarge our understanding or perception of human experience and observation.

The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. “You’ll find,” he remarked gently, “that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that’s hardly worth the effort.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of