Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

For a peaceful world, the golden rules to live by are mutual understanding, respect, tolerance, forgiveness, and love.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

Waiting on God means increasing purity.

I know a smart business decision when I see one - choosing open standards is | a very smart business decision indeed.

It was always a great challenge: how can I make a dreampop album that's still very Alcest, but not a ripoff - how to keep the core.

When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents.

Unbelievable how silly this Formula 1 is these days, with this stupid overtakes.

Black-ish is really a show about an American family and these are some of the topics that come up - for all of us, in different ways - and we get to see how this family is walking through it.

Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.