The bad stuff never stops happening: it lives in its own dimension, replaying itself over and over.

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.

Any failure we could suffer throughout our lives, will turn into little successes if we take the right path, keep walking.

To write is to transform that inward gaze into words, to study the worlds into which we pass when we retire into ourselves, and to do so with patience, obstinacy, and joy.

People don't just live one life. They keep coming back until they get it right.

An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure.

Never look a gift lion in the mouth.

The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads.

A woman's posterior is the key to my heart.

I watched so many comic book movies where the actors weren't as built as the characters in the book. It made me mad because they didn't look right.

Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.

I like playing all sports, from football to soccer, and I love playing baseball.