“If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.”

“Something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. Before that, it is something real.”

“You may be a lady but you are still the man!”

“The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.”

“My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.”

“The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.”

“Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves mixing up playing with happiness. There can be a kind of amnesia about the seriousness of playing, especially when we played by ourselves.”

“Remember when you were in school and the teacher would put a picture under an overhead projector so you could see it on the wall? God, I loved that. Tellya the truth, I used to look at that beam of light and think it was God.”

“If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.”

“Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.”

“If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.”