Humans are moving into a new phase, one based on the knowledge that talking about their feelings has never got them anywhere.

You love life because life's all there is.

The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.

You can't live in dread of something for long without beginning to crave it.

I didn't cry. Real things don't make me cry. Only false or sentimental things can do that. In this respect I'm like most civilised humans.

You think horror enters spectacularly. It doesn't. It just prosaically turns up. Even in the first seconds you know you'll find it a room.

By all means, become an abomination--but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.

All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its...motivation.

I read somewhere that when you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

There's always someone's father, someone's mother, someone's wife, someone's son. This is the problem with killing and eating people. One of the problems.

That's all that brave means - not thinking about the dangers. Just thinking about what you must do. Of course you were frightened. I was too, today. But you kept your mind on what you had to do.

Without the ability to be present we are missing much of what the adventure has to offer.

I try to learn from the past but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.

Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.

If I have enough for myself and family, I am steward only for myself; if I have more, I am but a steward of that abundance for others.

I'd rather be lonely than happy with somebody else.

Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific to stand as robust symbols of nationhood.

And alone and without his nest shall the Eagle fly across the sun.

Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near.

Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.