You just have to smile and take it, otherwise it would drive you mad.

Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens is estimated to have invented thirteen thousand characters? Thirteen thousand! The population of a small town!)

Books are, let's face it, better than everything else.

We're here for such a short amount of time. Why do we spend any of it building sandcastles?

...You can find people. It's like those acrobatic displays.... Those ones when you stand on top of loads of people in a pyramid. It doesn't really matter who they are, as long as they're there and you don't let them go away without finding someone else.

Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.

Life isn't, and has never been, a 2-0 home victory after a fish and chip lunch.