“It’s not much of a tail, but I’m sort of attached to it.”

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.

Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.

One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience – well, that comes from poor judgment.

When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.

A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.

A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.

Some people care too much. I think it’s called love.

No sensible author wants anything but praise.

When carrying a jar of honey to give to a friend for his birthday, don’t stop and eat it along the way.

Forever isn’t long at all, as long as I’m with you.

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

How, love and addiction can have similar strains – of attachment.

I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interested in the subject.

I’m very attached to movie theaters and I love going to them. Nothing will ever replace that. It’s very romantic and beautiful. I used to want to live inside of one, with a bathtub, a bike and a bed, and just watch movies.

You try to get out there and live. I’ve always had good friends who’ve been very supportive and help make me feel good and grounded because I’ve never felt attached to the film industry.

When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates’ parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.

He was attached by ties stronger than reason could break — chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.

We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.

Actually, the greatest detachment is being close to everything and not letting it consume and own you. That’s real strength.