"Bonds are guaranteed certificates of confiscation"

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”

“I don't pretend that I can read minds. I don't believe anybody can read minds. In other words, I don't believe in psychics.”

“And now I'm old and going--I'm sure I can't tell where; One comfort is, this world's so hard, I can't be worse off there”

“I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that was so raw and funny, and I think we're in the next important moment of television, where it's really telling the epic of the culture like Charles Dickens was doing in the 19th century with his serialized novels.”

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“Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.”

“And make us as Newton was, who in his garden watching The apple falling towards England, became aware Between himself and her of an eternal tie.”

“Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me some books, those writers reached out and said, Look Gideon, we know about your loneliness and we know you're feeling downtrodden. And they said...I'll stand up for you. You're not lone anymore.”

“We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets, we trace absurd and distant ellipses.”