There are some stories you can't hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them. But you are not. That's one reliable way of understanding time.

It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because unless you do that, the loved one dies for you again and again.

Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up.

Piece by piece living is hard to do. It may even feel like the hardest thing. But it has this going for it: you never need to know what it is you're carrying on your shoulders.

Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.

Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead.

Lies like that are not a sin, they are a sacrifice.

They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are.

Do you think there's such a thing as a ghost who masquerades as a person? Do you believe that there are people whose bodies are still alive here on earth but whose souls are already in hell?

The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.

Every life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets.

If you live your life in fear and had the opportunity to change. . .could you muster the strength?

One thing I can say for sure is that she was very clever. Not in the way others expect you to be – intelligent, witty and concise, but in the way people should be: creative and consistent.

Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.

Everyone holds a piece of the truth.

I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money.

I believe that a nation that allows music to be expendable is in danger of becoming expendable itself.

We need a president who is focused on defeating every single ISIS terrorist and protecting the homeland, which should be the first priority.

It will not do, my friend, to grant an easy indulgence to natural appetite and desire, for they ever seek to be our masters.

Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!