“Would-a Could-a Should-a Never Did-a”

“The way the animals live, everybody envies them, because look, a cat, when it walks--did you ever see a cat making an aesthetic mistake. Did you ever see a badly formed cloud? Were the stars ever misarranged? When you watch the foam breaking on the seashore, did it ever make a bad pattern? Never. And yet we think in what we do, we make mistakes.”

“The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.”

“He was not pouting. 'Yes, you were.' He was not doing a very good job of keeping his inner thoughts inner, either.”

“He had no idea why he was thinking with dramatic pauses now. He just was.”

“There's never enough of the stuff you can't get enough of.”

“If Pavlov tested his cat he would have failed.”