"We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us; and the more we gain, the more is our desire. The more we see, the more we are capable of seeing."

"Turning and turning in the widening gyre, The falcone cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world..."

"For every prohibition you create you also create an underground."

"Hit the ball over the fence and you can take your time going around the bases."

"When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on."

"Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected."

"In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be."

"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field."

"so convincing were those dreams of being awake that he woke from them in a state of complete exhaustion, and had to go straight back to sleep again."

"You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age."

"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me."

"Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little."