But see that you get on. That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.

Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.

It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters.

The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day.

We're news junkies in my house.

I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we´re still alive.

Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.