"After you've been in a place for a while, everything starts to look... I won't say better, there's no need to go to extremes...but your everyday life does start to become...familiar."

"Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others."

"They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers."

"We're not talking about historical accuracy, we're talking about art. I've set in motion a geometric inevitability. If I start chiseling there, chipping here, the whole form is compromised."

"The report of my death was an exaggeration."

"As men, we are all equal in the presence of death."

"I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race."

"A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?"

"We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary."

"I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means."