“It is very important to embrace failure and to do a lot of stuff — as much stuff as possible — with as little fear as possible. It’s much, much better to wind up with a lot of crap having tried it than to overthink in the beginning and not do it.”

“Having guts always works out for me.”

“Complaining is silly.Either act or forget.”

“Arthur Jelliby was a very nice young man, which was perhaps the reason why he had never made much of a politician.”

“In this instant, shaken to her very depths, this ecstatic human being has a first inkling that the soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite.”

“This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.”

“It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.”