“It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much...”

“Great romantics are granted lots of slack.”

“I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little.”

“Help them, but don't make friends with them.”

“I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.”

“The narrator welcomes new students to his school by offering to tell them who the easy teachers are, or who the good ones are.”

“Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.”

“Pride be damned, we do what must be done to survive.”

“I'd love to do comedy. And I think I have a pretty good sense of comic thing, so I'd really like to try that.”