It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical

Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.

Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.

Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.

You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.

I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.

Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.

He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't cry alone, and that's why she needs me.

Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.

Temples also take into consideration an ability to pay and, in a general sense, do not turn people away if there's a need,.

You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average.

Instead of reading vows at the wedding ceremony, they read hacked Sony emails.

It seems hardly fair to quarrel with a place because its staple commodity is not pretty, but I am sure I should have liked Cincinnati much better if the people had not dealt so very largely in hogs.

Style is doing things not in any way but in the best way.

Sweet Truth is a queen proud and mighty-- Her throne is in heaven above.

I have a whole different type of lifestyle.

Does anybody have a cigarette? I'm looking forward to that first smoke. I've been looking forward to [it] for about 30 years.

Rather than thinking to build, build to think.

We can no more enjoy life by hoping for a future result than we can enjoy music by waiting for the final note.