“Things could always be worse. In fact, the overwhelming odds are that they will be.”

“Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worse thing never quite comes.”

“I was a frustrated schoolteacher, persisting against overwhelming evidence to the contrary in the belief that the human mind could be moved by facts and reason.”

“When things are at their blackest, I say to myself, 'Cheer up, things could be worse.' And sure enough, they get worse.”

“I always find beauty in things that are odd & imperfect - they are much more interesting.”

“Love is an odd thing. As odd a thing as there is.”

“People who had, in the past, suffered from technophobia suffered even more. Others took other positions. Things were not so bad. Things could be worse. Worse things could be imagined. Worse things had been endured and triumphed over, in the past. This was not the worst. The worst was yet to come.”

“Time was such an odd thing. One moment you could talk to someone, then suddenly, they were gone.”

“The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.”

“But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse”