"And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that."

"To write is human, to edit is divine."

"Am I weird?""Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird."

"Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame."

"The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet."

"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work."

"They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?"

"I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we´re still alive."

"Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is."

"In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . ."

"You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you."

"We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living."

"I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world."

"What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common...."

"We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why."

"No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves."

"Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not."

"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win."

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

"If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone"

"For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand."

"love is what moves the world, I've always thought...it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down...bring them low...and make them crawl..."