But, of course, memory and responsibility are strangers. They're foreign to each other. Memory always goes its own way quite regardless.

Always be reading something, he said. Even when we're not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant.

Brave old world.

This isn’t fiction, the man says. This is the Post Office.

Words are themselves organisms, ...

Is there any escaping the junkshop of the self?

Is there never any escaping the junkshop of the self?

It is perhaps rather fine, after all, being dead. Highly underrated in the modern western world.

...and my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me.

What you see on stage is pretty much the way I am... a dry sense of humor.

I'm addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there's so damn much about myself to improve.

The guilt that accompanies mistakes can be washed away.

To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.

I saw in a dream a table where all the elements fell into place as required. Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper.

Everest you won't change, but I will get better...I will conquer you.

When you're being real, that's endearing to an audience. When you're not being real and you're making jumps to things that don't really follow how they would in reality, people don't appreciate that.

The disconnection of Church and State was a master stroke for freedom and harmony.

I'm a normal person. I have emotions.