Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them.

For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.

The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it.It's RUBBISH, death. It's STUPID. I don't want nothing to do with it.

And Desire smiles, and forgets, for Desire is a creature of the moment.

If there is a moral to this part of the story, and I distrust morals in the same way that I distrust beginnings, it is simply this: know that with which you deal.

I have experience near-death many times but a divine power saved me.

Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.

I think Israel will think one thousands times before invading Gaza.

History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.

Tokyo is huge. Something like 15 million people live there, and my estimate is that at any given moment, 14.7 million of them are lost.

I don't believe in fairy tales, but I believe in you and me

Suppression of impulses that would put you in danger is obviously an important neurobiological function.

Health food shops can make people feel very important; it's like a brand new religion with people trying to convert you to quinoa.

If you truly have it, you never lose it; and if you lose it, you never truly had it.

I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and that is a good thing.