With every lecture, you’re forced to look again at every choice you’ve made over the lesson-by-lesson chain of your entire life. And after all these years, you see how little you have to work with, how limited your life and education have been. How scant was your courage and curiosity. Not to mention your expectations.

Life is short, death is forever

You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.

A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world.

Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.

Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.