The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.

We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer.

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

Slowly but surely the sea is freezing over.

Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.

We as Americans believe it's OK to kill people. We believe it's OK to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. We think it's OK to invade a country where we think Osama Bin Laden is and he's in the other country. So we just go in and we just kill. And we have the death penalty; we sanction it.

So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.

I love how 'Game of Thrones' has resonated with so many people around the world. I feel like it has really tapped into our need to hear stories about the human condition, love, death, good, evil... For me, it really is a modern version of the old Greek theatre or cave men sitting around fires telling stories.