People don't always get what they deserve in this world. - Daniel Handler

One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading almost the entire time.

"To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left."