"When the wrong people leave your life, the right things start to happen."

"No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try."

"The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions."

"How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened."

"There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction."

"Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death."