Believe me, Doctor, if your life ends in suddenness you will be glad it did, and if it does not you will wish it had. You will want suddenness, Doctor.

In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.

In the end, all you want is someone to long for you when it comes time to put you in the ground.

No matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to confess, and an unleashed secret is a terrible force.

The forty days of the soul begin on the morning after death.

...fear and pain are immediate, and that, when they're gone, we're left with the concept, but not the true memory--why else...would anyone give birth more than once?

It's a sad thing to see, because as far as I know, this man Gavo had done nothing to deserve being shot in the back of the head at his own funeral. Twice.

The person of creatures is living, the purpose of living is service, a service that implants legacy.

I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.

I don't fear that a man will wear out as quickly as he will rust out.

Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.

Writing is my refuge. It's where I go. It's where I find that integrity I have.

Some love to roam o'er the dark sea's foam, Where the shrill winds whistle free.

Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

Eating is never so simple as hunger.

The gifts of bad men bring no good with them.

Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.