Friendship means understanding, not agreement. It means forgiveness, not forgetting. It means the memories last, even if contact is lost.

We are best friends. Always remember that if you fall, I will pick you up. after I finish laughing.

Son, you outgrew my lap, but never my heart.

Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.

Only a true friend would be that truly honest.

We were in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. It's a nice town, but it's aggressively quaint. They've got a popcorn shop above a waterfall and parades that come through town. It's all-American.

She soon learned, though, that giving weight to other people's opinions was creative nihilism; it was like being banished from the Land of No Words and exiled to the Land of All Bullshit.