To confront death every day, to see it for yourself, you have to love the living

To confront death every day, to see it yourself, you have to love the living.

Mine is a gruesome job, but for a scientist with a love for the mechanics of the human body, a great one.

Defying the Dark One no matter the length of his shadow. We will live, that defiance said. We will love and we will hope.

Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.

I wondered: if I was so hell-bent on chaos, why would I adopt a military rank? Perhaps there was a part of me that needed rules, needed regulations and order.

It is always the soul and brain that really matters

There's no "brothers" when it comes to white people. We are just complete individuals. We don't care about each other. He's not my brother; my brother lives in Ohio - I don't know that guy.

You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.

Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.

My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years.

Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.

Frequent the company of your betters.