All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its...motivation.

You love life because life's all there is.

The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.

You can't live in dread of something for long without beginning to crave it.

I didn't cry. Real things don't make me cry. Only false or sentimental things can do that. In this respect I'm like most civilised humans.

You think horror enters spectacularly. It doesn't. It just prosaically turns up. Even in the first seconds you know you'll find it a room.

Humans are moving into a new phase, one based on the knowledge that talking about their feelings has never got them anywhere.

By all means, become an abomination--but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.

I read somewhere that when you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

There's always someone's father, someone's mother, someone's wife, someone's son. This is the problem with killing and eating people. One of the problems.

Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.

Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.

Mathematics is the art of explanation.

Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.

My music is like the perfect haircut-a Friday-night cut! It makes you feel like wanting to put on some nice clothes to go out and have a good time.

While I was watching you, exotic words drifted across the mirror of my mind as summer clouds drift across the sky.

Nobody Told Me There'd Be Days Like These.

See that you promise: what harm is there in promise? In promises anyone can be rich.

Women don't ask to be raped, but there are some that are asking to be motorboated

Flying solo, you have a fair workload. I'm not only flying the balloon but doing the navigation, communications, repairing the burners, taking care of the equipment.