Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and no human ever ceases to need it. Keep your children short on pocket money but long on hugs

And suddenly I knew I was people and could not stop laughing.

There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

You do not truly own anything that you can't carry in both arms at a dead run

Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply.

The Stone trembled and threw herself outward bound, toward Saturn. In her train followed hundreds and thousands and hundreds of thousands of thousands of restless, rolling Stones . . . to Saturn . . . to Uranus, to Pluto . . . rolling on out to the stars . . . outward bound to the ends of the Universe.