You Can't Eat Straight A's.

Any Merchant Who Advertises 'honest Scales' Must Have Been Thinking About Weighing Them.

Do The Right Thing By Whoever Crosses Your Path. Those Coincidental People Are Your People.

Long Ago In China, Knot-makers Tied String Into Buttons And Frogs, And Rope Into Bell Pulls. There Was One Knot So Complicated That It Blinded The Knot-maker. Finally An Emperor Outlawed This Cruel Knot, And The Nobles Could Not Order It Anymore. If I Had Lived In China, I Would Have Been An Outlaw Knot-maker.

When I Am Composing, I Try To Clear My Mind Of Having To Publish, Or Having To Sell A Book Or Find Readers. That Kind Of Thinking Gets In The Way.

I Learned To Make My Mind Large, As The Universe Is Large, So That There Is Room For Paradoxes.