As you get older as an animal on the planet, you want to get a little more comfortable, you want to get cozier.

Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk

You're using your headphones to drown out your mind

I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.

I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved

The piano is not firewood -- yet.

So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.

I've got a perfect body, 'cause my eyelashes catch my sweat

Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

I don't really make records chronologically.

Lady Ponsonby was right. The forbidden fruit isn't shaped like an apple. It's shaped like a banana.

When something happens to you that is beyond words, life is happening to you. When the Ultimate is happening to you, you are beyond words.

Without peace, justice and freedom, the true value and dignity of mankind disappears.

And then the sword came down like a flash of lightning, and then her head was off her body and the long rivalry between me and the other Boleyn girl was over.

The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones, and the age of oil won’t end because we run out of oil.

For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.

As I traveled from one country to another, no one knew anything about me. So I could be anybody, I could speak as I wished, act as I wished, dress as I wished

Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood.

I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.

To die for one's great ideas is glorious - and easy. The horror is to outlive them. That is our worst capability.