And I’m drawn to failure. I often write about it, and I’m sympathetic with it, I think, because I feel I’m contending with it constantly in my own life.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Christ came into the world to save sinners, not good people, and your unworthiness is your greatest claim for His salvation.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up.

Those who deserve love the least need it the most.

We don't want to be something for everybody, we want to be everything for some people.

I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the gap between what his characters might like to accomplish and what fate provides them.

Being in love is a very strange thing. Your thoughts constantly drift towards this other person, no matter what you're doing.

I'm fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies - in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.