“One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.”

“There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas. ”

“Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.”

“Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.”

“Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.”

“Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.”

“Lost Time is never found again.”

“How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.”

“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”

“Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.”

“I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun." -"I should leave it for a while, it's too bright to see the numbers at the moment.”

“The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”