The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

It is so unexpected, it goes beyond my wildest dreams. Sometimes I just sit back and think. 'Oh my God, I'm in the movies!' It still hasn't sunk in.

What keeps me sane the most is, honestly, the Serenity Prayer.

You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.

I went through a couple of years there just mad at the world. I put my faith in the world and the world let me down. And I should have known that. The world's always going to let you down. Put your faith in God.