I would never dream of killing an excellent tailor, not even to keep a secret that could endanger my life.

Pain cannot be ignored. However, it can be endured. When necessary, a great deal of pain can be endured. Just ask my mother.

The general air of insecurity and affection made it too easy for him to imagine these once-a-year fabulous creatures as the cubicle dwellers most of them were in everyday life.

Parker Haas, crying Omaha, and his sleepless Rose.

You are going to die in front of dozens of witnesses, and none of them will do a thing to help you or avenge you. Because they know exactly what you know: The world is ending.

Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching thewalls of his dungeon.

Ownership of words is the reason, only few of us truly keep and respect our words. If you won't keep yours, it's probably not yours.

Life is nothing but an empty space filled with memories from beginning to end.

Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK.

Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.

These people are a part of me. And they are a part of America, this country that I love.

So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.

Exuberance is better than taste.

Goodness and simplicity are indissolubly united.-The bad are the most sophisticated, all the world over, and the good the least.

Certainly in the second film [Maigret's Dead Man], which is quite a more unpleasant and darker story, it's quite different in tone and feel.