A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.

A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

I'm not saying Obama is right on everything. Of course not. He may be wrong on a number of things. But what I do know is that he behaves like a very, very sane man almost all the time.

It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves. And people will spend 2 or 3 years obsessing about the video game in exactly the same way that they'd be obsessing about the movie if they were working on that.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born for literature