I think that's nice, and if I could have feelings at all I would have them for Deb.

And I was having too much fun to stop now.

I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.

The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn't it?

A man can take only so much. Even a phony man like me.

Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?

In its own way the kiss had been an act of murder.

Really now: If you can't get me my newspaper on time, how can you expect me to refrain from killing people?

It was such an unexpected and genuine smile that if I only had a soul I'm sure I would have felt quite guilty.

For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid— like a human-being. Like a very small and helpless human-being.

It was almost enough to make me feel emotion.

A terrible sadness threatened to overwhelm me as I wondered how two people capable of such love for each other had eventually felt so little for the child they had produced between them.

America's always been a great place to be crazy. It just used to be harder to make a living that way.

It's in out-of-the-ordinary situations - especially situations of challenge or adversity - that the most important differences between people shine through.

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.

I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.

If you don't fit into a certain type, there's a lot of strength in just being who you are.

This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you've got.

I loved Wimbledon and what it meant, but the surface felt uncomfortable. I just didn't like it, I was a hard-court guy, a Californian kid.

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.