I am easily persuaded to continue to have fun.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

There is room in history for all of us.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...

Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.

Hurting a softhearted caring person would please you but loss is yours

When I read a daring book or listen to rebellious music, I feel like I've found what freedom really means.

You don't talk much, do you?" she blurted out."I didn't think there was a need. You seem to be holding up both our ends of the conversation admirably.

Don't wait for answers, just take your chances. Don't ask me why.

Personally, I'm not afraid of a robot uprising. The benefits far outweigh the threats.

You have to write or else the auditioning process becomes so grueling because it's so hard to work.

Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.