"Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege."

"When you work with kids who have autism, they don't reciprocate any affection. You learn to find your self- worth within what you do, not what people tell you about yourself."

"Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content."

"The game is afoot."

"I only drink fortified wines during bad weather. Snowstorm, hurricane, tornado--I'm not particular, as long as it's bad. After all, any storm for a Port."

"It is a sadness of growing older that we lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult."

"I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do things the same way other people did. Dad's advice? 'Margo, don't be a sheep. People hate sheep. They eat sheep.'"

"There are very few people who don't become more interesting when they stop talking."

"He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama."

"If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life."

"Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled."

"Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?"