Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.

You mustn’t be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

Addiction isnt about substance - you arent addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

There is no such thing as expecting too much.

Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst

I believe that the memoir is the novel of the 21st century; it’s an amazing form that we haven’t even begun to tap…we’re just getting started figuring out what the rules are.

The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

Dogs are great teachers. They are at home in the world. They live in the moment, and they force us to stay there with them. Dogs love us unconditionally, not for our bodies or bank accounts.

Womens currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.

Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.

Guilt is petty; I am above guilt.

In one kiss, you'll know all I haven't said.

Let's be honest about journalists: We find a lot of ways of being wrong.

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

I began to learn the importance of lifting things up and looking underneath.

The thing I don't like about L.A. is that it's very industry-focused. That's not bad for kids. It's not hedonistic or anything, not any more shallow than anybody in the Midwest. It's not that.

The porcelain rose is not as pretty as the one that decays.

We are all equal in the sense that no man must mean - must be - the means for the purposes of another man; but each individual is an end in itself.

A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.

All that peace, man, if felt so good it hurt. I want to hurt it back.