A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only for a little while.

Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.

At the heart of nature’s mystery lies another mystery.

You may choose to live in a world of fantasy if you like, my dear, but I am a realist.

Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid..and wish you'd just stayed in bed?

She had maintained her strength in the face of all this for so long that we had come to take it for granted, but she wasn't bulletproof. She might've been peculiar but she was also human,

Destiny is for people in books about magical swords. It's a lot of crap.

What I believe is that when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason -- and it's not to fail and die.

At the heart of nature's mystery lies another mystery.

Everything happens for a reason.

Which was just well: goodbyes had never been my strong suit anyway, and lately my life had felt like an unbroken series of them. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.

Cultivate the habit of setting clearly-defined written goals

My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory.

Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word 'season' has been co-opted by television executives. There are few harbingers of winter here.

President Bush is a friend of mine. He's not a moron at all.

Some comedians love their characters. I don't fall in love with mine. In fact, I get tired of them very fast. You have to be willing to throw it all away.

Artists everywhere steal mercilessly all the time and I think this is healthy.

Do it yourself. Keep going. Many people have said these things to me many times and both are good pieces of advice. I like getting on with things.

Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.

The cross [is] the ultimate statement of God's involvement in the world on this side of heaven.