Getting lost teaches you how to read a map.

Every piece of the puzzle that doesn't fit gets you closer to the answer.

You'll have a lot more respect for a bird after you try making a nest.

Nobody notices it when your zipper is up, but everyone notices when it's down.

It's easier to throw sticks on the campfire than to try to restart it when it goes out.

If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today.

If you want pancakes for breakfast, offer to help make them.

Look at the footprints you've made.

Ten minutes is short if it's a recess and long if it's a punishment.

It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee.

If you want to see a shooting star, you might have to spend a lot of nights looking up.

The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.

She loved our dad in the inexplicable way that young women sometimes idolize men who greet their affection with casual indifference.

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.

The further you run from your sins, the more exhausted you are when they catch up to you.

What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?

In London there is a man who screams when the church bells ring.

I just don't know anything about jazz, really. I've never really listened to it, but I'd definitely like to discover more about it.

The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.

I'd rather produce art than become art.

For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other.