“A slice of pie without cheese, it's like a kiss without squeeze...”

“A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.”

“It's like the old pie-in-the-face routine: it stops being funny when it starts being you.”

“Hug and kiss whoever helped get you - financially, mentally, morally, emotionally - to this day. Parents, mentors, friends, teachers. If you're too uptight to do that, at least do the old handshake thing, but I recommend a hug and a kiss. Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.”

“Without story books is like a person with no soul.”

“The low bird is not picked tenderly out of the dust by its fellows; rather, it is dispatched quickly and without mercy.”

“there is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.”