There are the stars--doing their old, old crisscross journeys in the sky. Scholars haven't settled the matter yet, but they seem to think there are no living beings out there. Just chalk... or fire. Only this one is straining away, straining away all the time to make something of itself. Strain's so bad that every sixteen hours everybody lies down and gets a rest.

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.

Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie.