Notoriety and a fat bank balance must come after everything else is finished and done.

Action is hope. There is no hope without action.

Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

Digression is the soul of wit.

It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.

You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?..How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can't get over it.