No. I just don't want to be a detective. They figure out what happened after the fact, when it's too late. I want to prevent it from happening.

When something awful happens, sometimes people get stuck.

Your lot in life? A lot is something you draw, like straws. It's chance. You didn't get this life by chance. You chose it on purpose. If you're dissatisfied from it, you can change it.

Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels.

Sarcasm was a weapon for children.

It was better that we never apologized to each other. Then we'd be admitting that we were wrong and we owed each other something. That's where people got into trouble.

The nurse knocked softly on the door of the examining room and wheeled in a shiny silver tray displaying neatly arranged instruments of torture.

Boys are two years behind girls in maturity level.

Or that I couldn't stand to watch anything bad happen to you, because it was like it was happening to me too. Is that love?

But you are right, being stupid is not illegal. Otherwise half this town would be behind bars.

It's easier to remember your lies if they're close to the truth.

Pursue peace with all people.

If there’s a magic pony in the story, chances are I’ll read it.

Nobody ever lived in the past.

We're under obligation to love - that's the commandment.

Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

The young may die, but the old must!

Only when you know how to die can you know how to live.

The cinema is - in Jean Cocteau’s famous words - ‘a dream that can be dreamt by many people at the same time’.

It would be a dream come true if I could just go from studio to studio and play solos.