If Cape wasn't your last name, what was your real one?" I asked, deathly curious now. "Ahhhh," he complained. "Pincas Huckleburr.

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.

It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.

If you can be anything, be real.

Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.

Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.

Obviously Linux owes its heritage to UNIX, but not its code. We would not, nor will not, make such a claim.

My daughter just thinks that all moms fly the Space Shuttle

We live in a flat; my wife would be happy if we had a house with stairs. Or a little cottage in the country.

Anyone who loves music can never be quite unhappy.

Everything in my life was luck.

Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens the inevitable end.

The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.