It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to. When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
I think laughter may be a form of courage. . . . As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that. Absence of proof is not proof of absence. The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.