The most heartbreakingly beautiful girl I ever hope to see

I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.

Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.

The complicated futility of ignorance.

Don't put one foot in your job and the other in your dream, Ed. Go ahead and quit, or resign yourself to this life. It's just too much of a temptation for fate to split you right up the middle before you've made up your mind which way to go.

The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.

To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.