"You don't have to know everything in the world. We aren't supposed to. It makes you boring in mixed company if you can't be interested and ask questions of other people."
"If the world were really right, humans would live life backward and do the first part last. They'd be all knowing in the beginning and innocent in the end."
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Source: Angela Johnson (2010). “The First Part Last”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
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