Consider and then act, don't react. A worthy opponent will calculate his move to entice a response from you. Make your own play.

Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.

We were left with nothing because of a love like acid that ate its way through our entire family.

Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.

Scott glanced at his watch but didn't register what it said. The notion of time had become as absurd as the quietly glowing trees.

Jack laughed behind him, a mirthless sound from a man who had been on the wrong end of life's ironies too many times.

Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.

But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.

Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

I don't know about understood. I think that unless you are forced to understand - unless it is an issue of yours - you wouldn't bother to.

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.

Whichever age you are, that's the best age. I'm a very "now" person.

Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here.

Every village has its simpleton, and if one does not exist they invent one to pass the time.

Thinking is a social process. I talk to everyone from children to anthropologists and philosophers. I try my ideas out on people and they talk back to you. That's how ideas get formed.

Typical of most French guys in our league with a visor on, running around and playing tough and not back anything up.