There's a big difference between hating someone in peace and hating someone during war.

I don't think those who die are any better than those who stay alive. They just look better. They can't mess anything up anymore.

I was the chain that bit into my ankle, and I was the ruthless guard that never slept.

This is what they mean by epiphanies. I am almost thinking in exclamation points.

Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.

No matter how strong a condom is, it won't protect you from a broken heart.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.

Why, a moral truth is a hollow tooth Which must be propped with gold.

It was a titanic effort.

The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.

The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.