What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?

Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who loved you enough to give you his most valued possession.

I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral.

Fun, like champagne bubbles, can't completely fill you up.

Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.

It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty.

And marking off time struck me as something like counting empty spaces—spaces you know can't ever be filled.