“Humor depends on the teller and hearer of the jest standing in the same place.”

“[No single] explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is always, ALWAYS more to learn.”

“Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.”

“To reach out to you when I'm in need, and to try to be here for you when you need me back. And to feel such tenderness when I look at you that I want to stand between you and all the world: and yet also to lift you up and carry you above the strong currents of life; and at the same time, I would be glad to stand always like this, at a distance, watching you, the beauty of you.”

“Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as on useful ones.”

“Saving the human race is a frantic one. Or a tedious one. It all depends on what stage of the process you're taking part in.”

“...What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the artist, on his own, to create them.”