"Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them."

"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."

"Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost."

"What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises."

"I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me."

"I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women."

"A life well-lived is a testament that a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."

"In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010."