Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.

For about 150 days a year in Venice, the sun doesn't show through the mist until noon.

Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.

Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read.

When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.