Sometimes the only thing you could do for people was to be there.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'

He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there.

It was so loud and so deep, it wasn't really sound at all, just something that turned the air hard and then hit you with it.

The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it.

Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the top.")

I taught myself more in the library than school taught me.