Ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put

But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put.

I know that when I am dying, looking back, it will be women that I regret having argued with, women I sought to impress, to understand...

Youth, with all its accompanying risks, humiliations, and uncertainties, the pressure to do it all before it’s too late.

The end never comes when you think it will. It’s always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left.

The most terrifying aspect of human health is our refusal to take steps to help ourselves and the fact that we are so often responsible for our own demise through lack of positive action.

The most terrifying aspect of human health is our refusal to take steps to help ourselves and the fact that we are so often responsible for our own demise through lack of positive action,

Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.

The writer’s life is a life of revisions.

I have no intent. I have no reason to live, that's all. When I'm gone, I don't want to be remembered.

I have a feeling I will work for a long, long time. I like it a lot... and I don't know. I just have a feeling that I'm going to be one of those people who go on for ever.

I feel there is a curse on rock stars.

I can’t think of anyone else I’d travel around the universe with than Amy Pond.

The patter of their feet as they walk through Jim Crow barriers to attend school is the thunder of the marching men of Joshua, and the world rocks beneath their tread.

Consciousness means choicelessness, and to be choiceless is to be free from all desire, is to be free from all projection, is to be free from all imagination, is to be free from future.

Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.

Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.