Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.

Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.

The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.

Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.

She had known for a while that Chance would be her first. She hadn’t planned it would be tonight. But, it felt right, Fourth of July, fireworks, and her first time.

People aren't crazy, they’re just reacting normally to an abnormally crazy world.

Nūllum magnum ingenium sine mixtūrā dēmentiae fuitNo great talent without an element of madness

I like animals who trust people.

We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land.

Hillary Clinton is given approval and veto power over quotes written about her in the New York Times.

I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, how not to make a mess of it, has not yet been met.

Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them.

We take for granted how our mind puts everything together.

And all Halloween candy pales next to candy corn, if only because candy corn used to appear, like the Great Pumpkin, solely on Halloween.