“Memento mori—remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die—what makes this any different from a half hour?”

“She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour.”

“TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.”

“I am not menopausal. I just wanted half an hour alone. Is that too much to ask? A crappy half hour!”

“Lazy, and would cost you a morning. I never started a day with Clint Eastwood in the first scene, because you knew he was gonna be late, at least a half hour or an hour.”

“… like us? Counting up the minutes -- have we spent half an hour together?”

“Margaret Thatcher: …The first eleven and a half years have not been so bad – and with regard to a twilight, please remember that there are 24 hours in a day.”

“They should just call it The Bad News. The bloodiest, most disgusting things that happened today packed into a half an hour, right before you go to bed. You thought you were scared before…”

“All comedians are a bit attention-seeking and I'm no different. Anyone with the audacity to want to be listened to for an hour and a half must be.”

“The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways — I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows.”