I guess we're really brothers, aren't we? Don't know what that means, except it means that some of the same things we remember.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

With a hangover and with fear, it is difficult to put a helmet on your head.

They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.

Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.

Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?

It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid.

Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.

When people start liking people, that’s when someone has the ability to get hurt.

Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.

Even cities have their graves!

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

We have time, there's no big rush.

The only test of a soul's salvation is its inward happiness.

When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will.

It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.