You're insane!" "I won't argue that point.

Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.

There is only one type of story in the world-your story.

Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.

Where would you like to go, what would you really like to do with your life? See Istanbul, Port Said, Nairobi, Budapest. Write a book. Smoke too many cigarettes. Fall off a cliff but get caught in a tree halfway down. Get shot at a few times in a dark alley on a Morrocan midnight. Love a beautiful woman.

Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.