Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.

The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.

Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much.

Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible.

Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.

What I am, I don't know. I am the simulacrum of myself.

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.

History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.

...perhaps mankind must have a time of darkness so that we will one day again know what a blessing is the light.

We're unique in ways that can't be imagined, but you'll never know until you rid yourself of comparison.

He who hesitates is last.

I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.

We are about to change history, said Saphira. We’re throwing ourselves off a cliff without knowing how deep the water below is. Ah, but what a glorious flight! (Eragon to Saphira)

Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.

Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.

A life rooted deeply lives and grows in memory.

I met Jason Donovan at RAK studios. He had jodphurs on and small riding boots as he jumped out of the cab. He looked just like me!

Nobody should put out a record before they know what the street thinks.