If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.

Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.

What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you never know why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even know themselves. Nobody understands anybody.

The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not.

I'm putting you in Dink Meeker's toon. From now on, as far as you're concerned, Dink Meeker is God." "Then who are you?" "The personnel officer who hired God.

If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.

It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.