You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything.

Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.

The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things that you do.

I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about.

You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good.

I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.