Life

I remember when my aunt died, the thing that pissed me off the most was going to get groceries the next day and seeing all those people who didn't care... Didn't understand why I was so upset when I saw her brand of cigarettes behind the counter.

A man is just as sensitive as a woman because we are all human.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

I know you think that we saved you or something, Jeremy,' he said. 'That we were stronger than you. But we're not. We weren't. We're all just trying to survive however we can.

Something tells me this isn't going to end well for everyone involved. Someone may get turned into a frog yet.' And that was the good news.

Bringing you closer to the fragile edge of living is the job of a writer.

First of all, nothing good ever came from a beanbag chair. Nothing. I am speaking from personal experience.

Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

Death is more uni­ver­sal than life everyone dies but not every­one lives.

All we have is now, this moment. If you live in the future, you’ll miss things, right here, right now, and you’ll regret it later.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

If the girl is good looking and talented, and for some reason the film doesn't work, she gets a second chance. But if subsequent films don't work, she gets branded as an 'iron leg.' The whole thing gets negative.

The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist would get violent if someone were trying to kill him or her. You would fight for your life, whatever your beliefs.

You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.

There is no set moment in your life that will define you. Every moment is a chance to change your life for better or worse. Choose to change now.

Sing you a song and steal your soul.

Okay, try this on for size, Tall, Dark and Handsome. I won't be born for almost seven hundred hundred years. How's that strike you?

In my civilian world at home in Los Angeles, half the people I know are on antidepressants or anti–panic attack drugs because they can’t handle the stress of a mean boss or a crowd at the 7-Eleven when buying a Slurpee.