And if I do fall asleep, Marla has to keep track of Tyler. Where he goes. What he does. So maybe during the day, I can rush around and undo the damage.

You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?

I don't want to die without any scars.

On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.

Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.

This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.

We are here to feel the joy of life, to love, and to expand the happiness.

The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.

I am extremely disappointed by the actions of the 9/11 commission.

But I'm more scared of not writing.

The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will.

Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year. [Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.]

I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures.

I always wanted to make a film that had this sort of Chinese-box effect, in which you keep opening it up and opening it up, and finally at the end you're at the beginning.

Small thoughts fear the future. Big thoughts are the future.

As individuals, I just think that our biggest responsibility is to be self-aware, and some of us are not.