I hope suffering don't exist.

Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.

I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward.

With all due respect, if you’re forty-three, then I’m a fetus.

It is much harder to lie to someone's face.But.It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

It's up to you, not fate.

The world was full of waistrels and waifs, sycophants and spies - all of whom put words to the wrong use, who made everything that was said or written suspect

Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head.

The purpose of quantum linguistics is to survey the spirit of linguistics and finding solutions to the common barrier problems faced by means of deliberate use of language.

Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study.

Humor is like music. It's a rhythm, and you just kind of get the rhythm of it, and you have to know not to let the beat go too long, but to leave a beat in there for it to gel.

Genuine happiness and compassion go hand in hand.

One can summon courage and fortitude to face tragedy; irritations and frustrations are a cloud of mosquitoes that nip and sting and drive one frantic.

I think the most interesting stuff comes from people who've just got nothing to lose. You know, let's kamikaze this thing - just throw themselves in it, devil may care.

It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so.

Poor soul, she always knew everything about her neighbors, but she never was very well acquainted with herself.

I love film, and I think it's so important for kids to be educated about films and real life subjects that films cover.

A real player is somebody who never gives up, who keeps thinking all the way through, who's scared, (darn) right, but plays through being scared.