“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died.”

“The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.”