One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

Anger is a tiger that can eat you alive if you are not careful.

A great irony is that the quest for secular immortality is being funded by foundations and individuals who seem to hate life

I'm just a notch on your bedpost but you're just a line in a song.

Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.

People are always ruining things for you.

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.

I wasn't a keen taker of speed because I didn't like the comedown from it.

When you are here, you are here. When you are gone, you are gone. It isn't a problem to be gone, so long as you are really here when you're here.

Speed is a part of me. I think I was born with that, and nowadays a fast player, I need a fast car, too.

I might revisit - I like the idea of doing something else with [Hunt for the Wilderpeople characters]. But also I get bored of doing the same thing again. I just get bored.