Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

Still though, I think if you're not self-obsessed, you're probably boring.

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

The best defense against being hurt is to feel good about yourself and the way a person responds to you says more about them, than about you.

Nobody is more conservative when it comes to trade than I am.

I've always liked fashion but maybe not to the point that I was so sick about it that I wanted to draw my own things.

A heart will say amazing things if it's given half a chance.

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

India is scared of the competition... because Chinese goods will go into India and compete.

The faster you work, the better off you're going to be.

I think loss can fuel how you lead your whole life.

As I run, I wonder how many of these people helped buy my leg. I wonder about the deep, wide abyss between good intentions and concrete action, and how many of them leapt across it.