I've got nothing to offer you kids but these noodles. They're good noodles but they won't change the world.

The present is all we have, yet it is the one thing we will never learn to hold in our hands.

I wondered: what happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?

How does a copy become more than a copy? Is art the creation of something new and original, or simply the continuous enlargement, or the distillation, of an observation that came before

The only life that matters is in your mind. The only truth is the one that lives invisibly, that waits even after you close the book. Silence, too, is a kind of music. Silence will last.

The young man murmured in his sleep and said, “Dear Sparrow, ” and Sparrow felt, for the first time, how the purest joy could be a heaviness.

I know that throughout my life I have struggled to forgive my father. Now, as I get older, I wish most of all that he had been able to find a way to forgive himself.

If some people say what is in their hearts and other people say what glides easily off the tongue, how can we talk to one another?

THE FOND OLD COUPLE WASDISAPPEARING TOGETHER THROUGHSUCCESSIVE AMPUTATIONS.

If anyone asks for your autograph they're showing you respect and give it back to them.

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

Kat had been picking things up since her third birthday, when Hamish and Angus's father took them all to the circus because he needed to "borrow" an elephant.

As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together

And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient.

If you want risk taking, set an example yourself and reward and praise those that do.

Meditation is the action of silence.

The first time we put Debbie Downer on the show, I had a giggle fit that I couldn't control, and the whole cast ended up breaking so hard we could never quite recover.

I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.