I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention in my opinion arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is I think to have a happy childhood.
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
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