“I’m going to become the Pope next year. Nothing is impossible.”

I’d been shouting and shouting and no-one wanted to hear me.

I’d rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don’t have it. I make other people’s problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

Best marks go to cheaters and memorizers. Marks depend on memorizing and not on real knowledge. When you cram into your head for a test you may get a high mark but forget it the next day. That’s not an education.

The big turning point, really, was the Beatles’ influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin’ Spoonful and everybody else.

You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.

Next to a circus there ain’t nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.

If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

And I think of nothing. I think of nothing but Rachel. What happens next is pure magic, and is for us and us alone.