“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”

“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”

“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig. Lightl...”