Even if the world is cruel, even if all I have is loneliness, I’ll still live with everything I’ve got. Even if this emotion is all I have, I’ll keep struggling.

No matter what happens, even if the stars fall, I will live.

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it.

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

Women tell stories; men want answers. Guys get impatient when we drone on forever; we get frustrated when they tune out.

You don't have to fight every battle. You don't have to respond to every critic. You don't have to be offended because of what others say. You can rise above these things and soar.

When you're born with a tail, you learn to go through doors fast.

There's no present, there's no future, I don't even know about the past.

I have a tendency, especially when I'm playing with great players, to try and get them the ball.

Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.