One faces the future with one's past.

When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.

The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.

Predictability is the cousin of death: I don't necessarily want people to see me coming. You know?

A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.