“Few things were so sure and simple that they could be taken at face value.”
“If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.”
“If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.”
“The cost of a loaf is a simple thing, and so a loaf is often sought, but some things are past valuing: laughter, land, and love are never bought.”
“Life's pleasures were so simple, really. It was all a matter of appreciating what you had - and knowing that things could always be worse.”
“Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.”