I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

To survive, you must tell stories.

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

These poems are cupsthat I pour my love into.Here, Drink!

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

I want people to be able to relate to the music, to enjoy the music, in a sense of it being fun and interesting and maybe kind of quirky. I want people to be impacted by the story.

Wherever Jesus may lead us, He goes before us. If we don't know where we are going, we know with whom we go.

Do your best every time because by doing a thing well you build something valuable into yourself

I've lost some weight. I am on that new Obama diet. Every day I let Vladimir Putin eat my lunch.

You might be a redneck if your beer can collection is considered a tourist attraction in your home town.

You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.

Heritability pertains to the entirety of the genome, not to a single gene.