Did I choose this life of illusion? Don't be mad. My bed was made, I just lied in it.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

With a hangover and with fear, it is difficult to put a helmet on your head.

They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.

Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.

Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?

It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid.

The job of a writer is not to convey emotion but to invoke it.

Every child born into the world has a divine mission to fulfill.As the child grows into adulthood, he or she must act to fulfill the divine mission.

The enlightenment driven away, The habit-forming pain, Mismanagement and grief:We must suffer them all again.

Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker.

Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.

I've been making music for a while. And I could read about myself on the Internet for a while.

I guess, people like myself and Roxy Music that had a different agenda about taking up music.

The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step at a time.

I think anyone who's perfectly happy isn't particularly funny. And when you're very, very happy, you're not very funny. You're just happy. I'd rather be damaged and funny.

The problem with paparazzi is that it makes you question your boundaries, like, how do I say, Thats enough guys?