I'll never throw these small things away. There will never be a time when I don't want them, all the tiny parts of Cal that made a life.

I love lying here with you, under the books.

as if all the years haven't dulled that moment. She's staring at a spot of air in front of it, and I know, in that spot of air, is her son.

That's what we think because we can't imagine what it's like to not exist.

Your happiness is meaningless unless it is linked with the total liberation of people around you! You matter

Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.

You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that's great because it can intensify and bring an emotional lift. But the thing is you don't want to get in the way of the song.

When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

I thought being on stage was an amazing feeling, but there is nothing that can top watching my wife bring our son into this world.

Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.

Don't all the girls get prettier at closing time?

The fairy tale always takes place in worlds that are between, unidentifiable.

Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread