"How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?"

“It is torment to be segregated out because of some bit of clothing that you're wearing.”

“However, because they have no actual interests of their own (or if they do, they squelch them in order to fit in) and merely pursue those that they think will look best on their college apps, they're zombies.”

“No matter how bad a state of mind you may get into, if you keep strong and hold out, eventually the floating clouds must vanish and the withering wind must cease.”

“Whenever I'm out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think, I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.”

Source : Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.272, Delacorte Press

“I get my sense of humor from my parents. That's why they don't have one anymore.”

“There are some tales not for telling, whether because they are too long, too precious, too laughable, too painful, too easy to need telling or too hard to explain. After all, after years and travels my secrets are all I have left to chew on in the night.”

“I believe that George Bush won the election through the vote of the people and the way our republic is set up. All we did was follow the law in the Department of State.”

Source : "PrimeTime Exclusive: Katherine Harris Interview" by Rebecca Raphael, abcnews.go.com.

“How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.”

Source : Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”