Everyone has a telephone. Whether they can afford it or not. It's one of those things that people have, regardless of their income.

I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There!

Love what you do and do what you love.

Every day is Christmas Day to a dog.

Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind your desk, so near but far away, and, how can I say this, I used to think that you were Mrs. God, and that the library was a whole world, and that no matter what part of the world or what people or thing I wanted to see and read, you'd find and give it to me.

A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.