It's a sad thing to see, because as far as I know, this man Gavo had done nothing to deserve being shot in the back of the head at his own funeral. Twice.

In my earliest memory, my grandfather is bald as a stone and he takes me to see the tigers.

In the end, all you want is someone to long for you when it comes time to put you in the ground.

No matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to confess, and an unleashed secret is a terrible force.

Believe me, Doctor, if your life ends in suddenness you will be glad it did, and if it does not you will wish it had. You will want suddenness, Doctor.

The forty days of the soul begin on the morning after death.

...fear and pain are immediate, and that, when they're gone, we're left with the concept, but not the true memory--why else...would anyone give birth more than once?

My biggest failure is 'Metal Gear.' It's my biggest failure and my biggest success.

Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.

It is both theoretically mistaken and morally wrong to regard others as objects of investigation rather than partners in free rational communication.

Do what lasts, get around to everything else.

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.

Will you pretend you're my boyfriend?

As a dimension of man, rebellion actually defines him.