A moment passed, perhaps half a second when their faces said what they felt, and then Emma was smiling, laughing, her arms around his neck.

You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.

This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.

No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.

The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.

Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.

Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you

You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle

If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?

Maybe we've grown out of each other.

You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.

The greatest waste in all of our earth is our waste of the time God has given us each day.

I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.

It would be quite wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for the activities of American Communists.

German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors.

Dreams create desire. Desire creates determination. Determination creates distance between you and failure.

I used to hate England because they ruled my country but I am happy they gave us the game of cricket, which they can't play very well, and the English language, which I can't speak very well.

I wish I had an invisible plane to take me home to Brooklyn, and I wouldn't have to ride the subway.

When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.

How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars

I often think about my future wife and how lax she's been about getting in touch with me.