Source: Once Upon a Marigold
“It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.”
“This not only misses the point, it is the precise antithesis of the point.”
Source: The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Chapter 10 “The One True Tree of Life” (p. 261)
America...You Kill Me
“Certainty is missing the point entirely.”
Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
“It's like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.”
On having his world records beaten
Jesse Owens, Champion Athlete (1990)
“I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.”
“Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.”
Source: A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog
“The point that the Democrats missed was that the people who weren’t rich wanted to be rich.”
"The Dirty Trickster" (2008)
Source: The Path to Enlightenment is not a Highway, 1996, Bondage, p.15
“For four years, from an artistic point of view, I lived from wonder to wonder.”
On her four years stay in Japan from March 1916, quoted in Japan (1916- 1920) http://www.searchforlight.org/TheMother_lifeSketchpart5.htm
