Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.

Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn’t register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you’re too daft to know you’re mortal?

It is such an important message and such an important story. It is a message of courage and heroism in the face of just horrible circumstances.

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.