“Of course. I am well aware that the streets of New York are not safe, but then there is no longer any place in the world which is safe. One cannot live in perpetual fear, one has to be as prudent as possible, and get on with life. - A Severed Wasp”

“Being alive hurts. I have found it best not to rush for the aspirin bottle. - A Severed Wasp”

“Many waters cannot quench the thirst for love,nor can the floods drown it.”

“That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.”

“In reading we must become creators. Once the child has learned to read alone, and can pick up a book without illustrations, he must become a creator, imagining the setting of the story, visualizing the characters, seeing facial expressions, hearing the inflection of voices. The author and the reader "know" each other; they meet on the bridge of words.”

“Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.”

“Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.”