Mel

“And don't forget the presents," said the Chair of Indefinite Studies, as if reading off some internal list of gloom. "How...how full of potential they seem in all that paper, how pregnant with possibilities...and then you open them and basically the wrapping paper was more interesting and you have to say 'How thoughtful, that will come in handy.' It's not better to give than to receive, in my opinion, it's just less embarrassing.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

“We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one’s life without a sense of time is to squander it.”
― Diana Trilling, The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling

“To make mistakes is natural, but to go to one's grave without having understood them makes life a pointless exercise.”
― Susan Tamaro

“Would it not be downright cruel to keep him in semi-captivity in a town or city, where the opportunities for wreaking havoc and destruction upon the landscape are necessarily so limited? In a word, is it right to attract Wombats?”
― Will Cuppy, How to Attract the Wombat