The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...

He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.

We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.

This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused.

The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes.

We are all brothers and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive. (pg. 39)

Man comes closer to God through the questions he asks Him, he liked to say.

All this under a magnificent blue sky.

Violence is not the answer. Terrorism is the most dangerous of answers.

Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.

S.T.O.P. = Start To Open Possibilities

To be happy with your woman, make her emotional, but never become emotional!

A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born, but you can choose how to die.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

Hollywood was fine with fakes, but it was most definitely not okay with frauds.

When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own interests.

Generosity, to be perfect, should always be accompanied by a dash of humor.

The Columbia years are the most sentimental for me. My parents were together through most of that time and we were a happy, sort of normal family.

Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly.

After a divorce, men's biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women's is poverty).