"You live and learn. At any rate, you live."

"Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."

"There is an art, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."

"The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79."

"Today must be a Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays."

"He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate."

"Come away,O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand"

"When I think of the number of disagreeable people that I know who have gone to a better world, I am sure hell won't be so bad at all."

"I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died."

"To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance."

"Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal."