"You don't psych yourself up for these things, you do them... I'm acting for the audience, not for myself, and I do it as directly as I can."

"Death is not an easy thing for anyone to understand, least of all a child, but every life shall one day end. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and…"

"Please, know that for as long as I live I will be haunted with the sorrow for what I did and when I die I will have counted it more mercy than I deserved to have lived the life I did. Until that day, …"

"It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own."

"Many people who experience illness imagine that everyone else is blissfully getting on with life in perfect health—and this illusion compounds their suffering."