A person’s life story is equal to what they have plus what they want most in the world, minus what they’re actually willing to sacrifice for it.

Everything in the universe is everything else. A man is a killer is a saint is a monkey is a cockroach is a goldfish is a whale, and the Devil is just the angel who asked for More.

It's taken me years of practice to learn how to act natural.

The time flies. The time flies feed on rotting clocks.

I do know that I fell in love with the moment of falling in love and I wanted to keep that moment alive forever, at the expense of all those moments to follow.

Only everyone forgets how seldom our memory is accurate. Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past"p.193

Desiree. It's like falling in love every night and having your heart broken every morning... Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past.

I bought a piece of God, ground to dust and mixed with alcohol in a glass bottle the colour of molasses.

Everythings a choice. Nobody's born good. Nobody's born evil. It's always a choice.

Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.

Come with uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones...you are invited!

It's true that I have not been able to completely close Guantanamo, but we've drastically reduced the population from 700 or so to around 60 now.

I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against.

When I'm a Buddhist my family hates me. When I'm the Buddha they love me.

Get up from your desk and wander outside occasionally. To be a good writer one needs to be a good observer, and there isn't a lot to be observed at desk level.

We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.

I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.