A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

The power of your intentions has a greater impact on your life than your actions.

There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.

It's true that in reading an interview, I have a little critique of the objectification of women in a [Playboy] magazine that is perceived to doing that.

Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick.

...the last player I truly idolize... No other footballer is more worthy of the number 10 shirt than him. (on Maradona)

I've followed my voice rather than forcing it to emerge.

I'm doing a little freelance work, and I think everybody's trying to take their minds off rock and roll for a little while and get some perspective.

It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.

I was struck by the effortless way they moved between musical styles, all the while managing to make each their own. It was instantaneous that I knew I wanted to work with them.

All progression is in the relative world.