Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain.

If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp.

I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.

Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose.

Besides, I can't get to where I want to go by conscious or unconscious suicide. I've got my strange little life to lead. Leading it the best I can - that's how I buy the ticket to where I want to be.

Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and sore.

This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you don't overdose

A broken thing can't fix itself.

Nothing before its time, son. Everything in its own time, to its own schedule.

Modern invention has been a great leveler. A machine may operate far more quickly than a political or economic measure to abolish privilege and wipe out the distinctions of class or finance.

To help get your creative juices flowing, you might look online at lists of the "best taglines ever." Their branding ideas are genius and may be just the catalyst you need to activate your awesome!

'White Material' is about courage and craziness.

You could put me on any track. I support that one million percent. Whatever the track is, I'm going to smash it. Believe that.

I'm a painter, that's what I love to do first and foremost.

The future’s too bright to dwell on the past. Life moves fast, run faster.

The nearer a person approaches the Lord, a greater power will be manifested by the adversary to prevent the accomplishment of His purposes.

I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.

I'm a big fan of pastries the size of a baby that contain enough calories for a year. That seems like an effective use of time.

The Pope doesn't get mixed up in Italian politics.