Believe Me, Nothing Is Trivial.

Because We Do Not Know When We Will Die, We Get To Think Of Life As An Inexhaustible Well. And Yet Everything Happens Only A Certain Number Of Times. And A Very Small Number Really.

Immortality Is To Live Your Life Doing Good Things, And Leaving Your Mark Behind.

We Tend To Take A Great Deal For Granted, Because You Feel Like You're Going To Live Forever. It's Only If You Lose A Friend, Or Maybe Have A Near-death Experience, [that] Many Events And People In Your Life Suddenly Attain Real Significance.

I Always Had A Pretty Good Knack For Raising Hell.

You're Dealing With A Character Who Is, At Some Points, Quite Insane. And I Hope That Any Wicked, Dark Sense Of Humor Eric Exhibits Comes Out Of The Fact That He'd Been Pushed To The Point Where It Seems Quite Sensible To Say Some Of The Ridiculous Things He Says.