A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn't want to be used by anybody.

I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.

The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.

Whenever I ask a question, and the pain comes, I know I have asked a really good question.

It was literature in its finest sense, since it made Unk courageous, watchful, and secretly free.

Time passed quickly. Constant did not move.

Another woman told Constant what it was the crowd felt it had a right to. 'We have a right to know what's going on!' she cried.

Theology: (15) Somebody made everything for some reason.

In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.

Push the needle into some middle range of guarded optimism.

Rejection is part of the game. Or rather, rejection is part of the profession. A profession which at times can feel like a game.

I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do. Don't beat yourself up about it.

We don't take a trip. A trip takes us.

Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of reach of sharks" "Yes, sir, of sharks and men.

Art must take to the road and risk all for the glory of adventure.

In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests

I will do everything in my power to prevent a Palestinian state

The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.