But when you make love, the dead stay close, fill the bed, lie along the bodies in tiers, sandwiching all their lives with yours.

Success means leaving everything behind and standing persistently towards our aims with great determination.

Survival was more than the preservation of life. It was tenacity in the face of ruin, an unbroken resolve in the midst of defeat, a glimmer of hope in the maelstrom, and peace despite the wreckage.

You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.

Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.

We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world.

All I want is to know things. The black gulph of the infinite is before me.

Desert, in generally, is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself.

I do think comedy needs to be a living thing, but I think without a great script and fully realized characters, you cannot keep it living. Otherwise it just becomes long and rambling indulgent.

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

An organization needs to be constantly refreshed.