If you’re alive, you can’t be bored in San Francisco. If you’re not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life.

Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers.

I love the bicycle. I always have. I can think of no sincere, decent human being, male or female, young or old, saintly or sinful, who can resist the bicycle.

All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents, but an unbearable ordeal every day, which can be made tolerable only by mockery in one form or another.

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant.

The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.

Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us.