“You walked in, laughing, tears welling confused, mingling in your throat. How can you be so many women to so many people, oh you strange girl?”

“There are so many beautiful girls around that after a while you start looking for someone who can make you laugh”

“Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.”

“And that is all the Pope is saying to another human being. God made you the way you are, and loves you for it, and wants you to be happy as yourself. How much agony and pain has there been across so many centuries because we could not open our hearts to this truth? It is so strange to me how so many nonbelievers can see in this Pope’s interaction with others the spirit of Jesus, and how so many of the most devout seem terrified by it.”

“If this is how you treat your friends, no wonder you have so many enemies.”

“There's so many inside jokes because you spend so much time together. You spend fourteen hours a day together and you're together all the time and you're doing all these strange activities and there's strange scenes and lines so you just kind of end up with these really weird in-jokes that keep you going and give you belly laughs.”

“So I have. Let me hold the baby, Scarlett. Oh, I know how to hold babies. I have many strange accomplishments. Well, he certainly looks like Frank. All except the whiskers, but give him time.”

“I hope not. It’s a girl.”

“You can only hold your stomach in for so many years.”

“Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.”

“Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?”