“What makes you so certain?"
"But I am not certain," I told him. "Nothing is certain. You want certainty?"
"Yes!"
"Then you want death.”

State of Fear (2004)

Fuller version: This series of instances entangles unforeseeing mortality, so that among these things but one thing is in the least certainthat nothing certain exists, and that nothing is more pitiable, or more presnmptuous, than man! In Latin: Quae singula inprovidam mortalitatem involvunt, solum ut inter ista vel certu sit nihil esse certi nec quicquam miserius homine aut superbius.
Book II, sec. 5.
Naturalis Historia

The making of a movie is wonderful. What&#x27;s difficult is afterward when you have to go around and try to sell it. The actual filming, when you have a good script—which isn&#x27;t often—nothing beats it. <br class="br">Source: &quot;As quoted in Rustic Oregon life is a real picnic for Kim Novak&quot; by Bob Thomas, Associated Press, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 14 May 2004 https://www.seattlepi.com/ae/movies/article/Rustic-Oregon-life-is-a-real-picnic-for-Kim-Novak-1144800.php

Source: Short fiction, Home is the Hangman (1975), p. 138

Source: Wishful Drinking

Source: Far from the Madding Crowd

The Serpent, in Pt. I, Act I
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)

From "Keep young and beautiful", interview by Bill Black, Sounds (19 November 1983).
In interviews etc., About himself and his work