It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.

I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.

The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.

Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.

I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.

He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.

The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.

I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.

Being gifted needs courage.

Each of us must have something to live for

I can't defeat anyone except my past and transcend to be better.

To knock today's prestige dialects off their pedestals, it helps to realize that they are really foul perversions of yesterday's prestige dialects.

Myths have a very long memory.

When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.

Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised

I ask Laurie it it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produced a movie.

You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.

I still play Strat, I don't know nothing else. Strats and Telecasters.

Some of the most gifted people I've ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?