Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.

I was only kicking down the Christmas tree to get the star on top.

First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.

Don't they get afraid, then?" "They have a religion for that.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.

It could reach up and grab the moon.