My Small Boat

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.

I Am the Song
I am the song that sings the bird.
I am the leaf that grows the land.
I am the tide that moves the moon.
I am the stream that halts the sand.
I am the cloud that drives the storm.
I am the earth that lights the sun.
I am the fire that strikes the stone.
I am the [...]

I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted;
persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished;
persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR.
warning at the front of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”

There’s no sense in being precise when you don’t even know what you’re talking about.