It's better to keep quiet and have people think you stupid, than to talk and confirm it.

I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.

You ought never to "sass" old people- unless they "sass" you first

All the talk used to be about doing people good, now it is about doing people

A gold mine is a hole in the ground owned by a liar.

Part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in