I'd always assumed I was the central character in my own story, but now it occured to me I might in fact be only a minor character in someone else's.

There must be a lot of people in the world being wondered about by people who don't see them anymore.

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

Words have a life; without response they die.

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if were put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?.

The things that matter don't necessarily make sense.

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.

At times people who are extremely sad become lighthearted for the most trivial reasons, merely to obtain the relief furnished by the exactly opposite condition.

Fame separates you from life.

Black churches minister to social needs out of necessity.

You know journalists. You know the media. They are going to hang on to anything negative they possibly can.

Fortunately, at the end of every season, we close the chapter and start anew. That's the language of the series now, so it can organically come to a conclusion that we love.

Particular bits of knowledge are nothing, because they are made up of what Dr. Robert Hutchins once called rapidly aging facts. Principles and method are everything.

If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.

The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries.