But what is past my help is past my care.

Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.

Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.

Boy, if anyone wants to get visited from an alien, it's me. I'm dying, and I've been sending out that invitation to the universe ever since I was a kid. I don't believe in little green men. That's collective neurosis of society. So I don't believe that.

There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.

I think my mother was there all the time. Every time I thought I was almost dying and gave up hope in my life, I felt like she was whispering in my ear and asking me, 'Why are you doing this?'

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.