Just because he was pretty didn't mean he couldn't be improved by a smack upside the head with a piece of earnest hickory

Children see magic because they look for it.

He loved constantly, instantly, spontaneously, without thought or words. That's what he taught me. Love is not something you think about, it is a state in which you dwell. That was his gift.

It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.

If you think anyone is sane you just don’t know enough about them. The key — and this is very relevant in our case — is to find someone whose insanity dovetails with your own.

Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair.

Nobody's perfect... Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him.

I was seven before I realized that you could eat breakfast with your pants on.

If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.

Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place.

So hey, once Joshua heals your brother, you want to go do something, get some pomegranate juice, a falafel,or get married or something?

Don't tell a lie to be loved, speak the truth to be hated.

It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.

I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed.

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.

But what's a writer for? The whole point is to put yourself into other lives, other heads-writers have always done that. If you screw up, so someone will tell you, that's all.

... is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay, -- and then blame the clay when the whole image falls into dust?

The burden becomes light that is shared by love.

All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain site.

You can spend your whole life planning. But once you're ready, get out there and start doing it.