There was the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry.

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.

What a wonderful world it could be, when spiritual factions would choose to read sacred writings as colorful metaphors and not as bloody declarations of war. (“Is heaven a place in the sky?”)

Breath is your link to life

I've never liked the press part of it (no offense), but it comes with the job.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity.

I really do want to act, I love acting, and I want to do it in the long run.

The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.

No matter how you look, we all hurt the same, cry the same, and feel joy the same.

Motherhood is heart-exploding, blissful hysteria.

If I were to direct an episode, then there would be no one for me to blame, and that's not any fun. It's more about sitting in the back seat and trying to drive.