After all these years, his best friend is malaria.Even on the brink of an Alaska summer, it comes calling: a bone-deep chill one night, a ministry of sweat the next. Calling him back to old battles.

Math is a very peculiar thing, for in it all numbers have a double but not all have halves.

One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.

On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire (One may say that his wit shines by the help of his memory).

Herb is the unification of mankind.

The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.

But the Americans have no extra money. They have their own problems. They can provide financial assistance for two, three, four, or six months at most.

That only shows you have no heart,’ she said. But her eyes said that she knew he had a heart, and that was why she was afraid of him

I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.

Being sexy is kind of funny to me.

I didn't ask to be Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke asked to be me.