He wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

With a hangover and with fear, it is difficult to put a helmet on your head.

They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.

Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.

Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?

It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid.

Blaming is so much easier than taking responsibility, because if you take responsibility … then you might be to blame.

We pray to God for ourselves instead of the general good.

I think, for me, when I direct my own work it's just an extension of the authorship.

Buddhism is all about finding your own way, not imitating the ways of others or even the ways of Buddha himself.

I'm crazy. I know I'm crazy 'cause Desmond Tutu told me, and he's very clever. He said, 'You must free yourself, be more of who you are. Be more crazy.' And I'm going to.

The sofa is the enemy of productivity.

The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.

You'll get much better results by being upfront, answering creditors calls, and responding to their letters. Delaying the inevitable only digs a deeper hole.

Jesus this song you wrote The words are sticking in my throat Peace on Earth Hear it every Christmas time But hope and history won't rhyme So what's it worth? This peace on Earth

Whoever is versed in the jargon does not have to say what he thinks, does not even have to think it properly. The jargon takes over this task.