People, it turns out, aren't a product of their own time. They're a product of the time before theirs

Our worst fear isn't the end of life but the end of memories.

Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior.

You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.

Many things embarrass me, but reading isnt one of them. Im not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor the flaky meditation books. After all, I can pretend I never read those.

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

Anything that's worth anything is complicated.

Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.

We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of life, but the end of memories

But my point, you see is that death is misunderstood. The loss of one's life is not the greatest loss. It is no loss at all. To others, perhaps, but not to oneself.

Did she answer my email yet?' That's the new obesity.

You’re not worried about being compromised, are you?” he asked. “Because I’ve already done that.

Using for a noble purpose is still using.

Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling.

Obviously this person's a hazard. Stupid people are dangerous.

People do not by default follow the strongest, but they follow the bravest

But I didn't even see God in the show as being very spiritual, I see him or her, it, as being something that is just relevant and very important in her life.

A proof only becomes a proof after the social act of "accepting it as a proof".

I think camping is one of those things where if you're forced into it as a child, you'll probably hate it as an adult.

The international community should treat this as a window of opportunity to ramp up preparedness and response.

I think when average-size people start taking roles that were meant for dwarfs, that's a little frustrating because there aren't that many roles out there for height-challenged actors.