If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth.

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.

Needing kindness myself, I am kinder now, and we get on amazingly well. [p. 110]

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back.

I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society will think.

Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time.

Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland Mary!"

Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.

Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

A lot of people go, "I'm influenced by the Beatles and Zeppelin," and they just sound like a karaoke.

Those who in fact risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all.