“Life's accumulation is more discouraging than life itself, when stirred up.”

“I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.”

“You have been my friend," replied Charlotte. "That in itself is a tremendous thing...after all, what's a life anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die...By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.”

“Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep.”

“I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema, there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of life's more stereotyped roles.”

“But real life is only one kind of life—there is also the life of the imagination.”

“Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.”