You can't be the head, if you are a mediocre.
How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words.
It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.
Stories never really end. . . even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.
Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said. . . "As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells. . . and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower. . . both strange and familiar.
Fire and water," he said, "don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately.
Palestinian Arabs [are] people who breed and bleed and advertise their misery.
When it seems like that's all there is, remember all you have in Him.
The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business.
Some people are so sensitive that they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them.