But since everything and anything are always possible, the miraculous is always nearby, and wonders shall never, ever cease.

If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand in greenhouses, and form dandelion societies and all that. But, they are everywhere and don't need us and kind of do what they please. So we call them weeds and murder them at every opportunity

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

I love this child. Red-haired - patient and gentle like her mother - fey and funny like her father. When she giggles I can hear him when he and I were young. I am part of this child. It may be only because we share genes and that therefore smell familiar to each other.... It may be that a part of me lives in her in some important way.... But for now, it's jelly beans and 'Old MacDonald' that unite us.

It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.

Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.