“Sometimes people don‘t think I can be serious or that I can learn things, but I can—I can do lots of things after I‘m serious and listen. And focus. Focus.”

"They said my gorilla used to live in Africa, and he would be happier there." #internationalprimateday

"Suit yourself. Here, take this," Gerd threw an orange down to him. "You can tell your grandchildren you ate one of the last oranges in Germany."

"I've thought a lot about why I ran away from home and it's still pretty tough to put my reasons into a couple of tidy sentences. I've never been very good at explaining myself. Somehow, between the inside of my skull and the outside of my mouth the words get all changed around or they hide on me and I can't get hold of the ones I want."

Before smartphones and Google, Sheldon heads to the library and looks up Bisexual in the dictionary.