He looked so silly that I could not stop laughing, even as my tears kept flowing. Is the root of laughter also sorrow? As I laughed, I was filled with both joy and sorrow.

Now I know that anytime you see a “no trespassing” sign, it means you’ve got to go in and take a look.

Everyone has his or her own means of defining value.

Full of questions and pleas, her eyes seemed to be asking for rescue.

But Phoebe loved her mother best as she was now, wistful, out-of-step, her laugh tinged always with sadness, as if things were only funny in spite of themselves.

It is only in the dance between chaos and order that life progresses.

Any idiot can face a crisis-it's day to day living that wears you out.

I have never gone on a real trip, never taken a holiday. The best holiday for me is spent in my workshops when nearly everybody else is on vacation.

One of the things that kept me out of trouble was doing something creative - creativity can't be judged.

‎"Sincerity is the biggest part of selling anything -- including the Christian plan of salvation.

Mental events such as perceivings, rememberings, decisions, and actions resist capture in the net of physical theory.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

It's hard to escape when your hobby is your job.

Every kind of reward constitutes a degradation of energy.