That is, Jack thought, the way of life. The horror changes us, because we can never forget. Cursed with memory. It starts when we're old enough to know what death is and realize that sooner or later we'll lose everyone we love. We're never the same. But somehow we're all right. We go on.

I am basically a pretty good autodidact. I can teach myself things.

I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.

Never, never try to scope the market.

In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world, things in time and of time, not beyond time.

The process, not the final achievement, is what it's all about.