Coming to grips with being a bit of a celebrity. That's not anything I ever expected to have to deal with in my life.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.

Life’s more science-fictiony by the day.

Make a start, even if you have a controversial idea!

Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.

War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.

The history of the bow and arrow is the history of mankind

The world wasn't created. It is created anew at every moment by mind.

Changing your attitude from self-centerdness to understanding requires desire and commitment to always try to see things from the other persons point of view.

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.