No one will ever forget that night, and what it meant for this country. But I will never forget the man and what he meant to me.

Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.

It's all a joke! Everything anybody ever valued or struggled for... it's all a monstrous, demented gag! So why can't you see the funny side? Why aren't you laughing?

I am but a stranger ... as we all are. Lonely inside our separate skins, we cannot know each others pain and must bear our own in solitude. For my part, I have found that walking soothes it; and that, given luck, sometimes we find one to walk besides us ... at least for a little way.

Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.

Life isn't divided into genres

I felt, if I'm going to react I might as well over react.