Charlie Asher: Mrs. Ling, is that duck wearing trousers? Mrs. Ling: Could be . . . . You hear of paper-wrap chicken? This duck in pants.

Children see magic because they look for it.

He loved constantly, instantly, spontaneously, without thought or words. That's what he taught me. Love is not something you think about, it is a state in which you dwell. That was his gift.

It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.

If you think anyone is sane you just don’t know enough about them. The key — and this is very relevant in our case — is to find someone whose insanity dovetails with your own.

Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair.

Nobody's perfect... Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him.

I was seven before I realized that you could eat breakfast with your pants on.

If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.

Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place.

So hey, once Joshua heals your brother, you want to go do something, get some pomegranate juice, a falafel,or get married or something?

I bet there are a lot of women out there who want to sleep with a guy who reads. And being the head of the reading foundation, I’m very well endowed.

The world is my country all mankind are my brethren and to do good is my religion.

Growing older doesnt bother me.

One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.

But if you have a solid walk with the Lord, then you wont fear that failure.

Only a well-fed, well-housed, well-schooled people can enjoy the blessings of liberty.

Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.

I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.

And he realized... that fragile, mortal life wasn't just important to him. It was more important than his own.

I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married