Every night I build a fire for you, Alowa. Every night I dance on the rooftop for you. Look at the flames, Alowa. Aren’t they beautiful? Look at the smoke. I’m dancing in the smoke, Alowa.

Felix has always believed that if there is one thing in life that is fated it is our birth, that far-fetched conspiracy of circumstances which have to occur in order for us to get born.

It’s our memories that teach us who we are.

Never leave home without your memories.

One consequence of ignorance is that it misdirects anger.

To tell a lie is to risk being caught out and there’s excitement in avoiding traps: it was an aspect of my childhood I was perhaps averse to relinquishing.

The temptation to betray a secret, always breathing its hot breath in your ear.

Power needs plots because plots are secret until they unfold and the most gratifying kind of power is holding onto an explosive secret.

Everything sacred begins with a circle of motion.

If you’re not going to feel how are you going to know what to think? Isn’t it in the nature of feeling to evolve thought?

It’s in our dreams that we pull people towards us.

Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment.

What I have been taught, I have forgotten; what I know, I have guessed.

Look up at the stars and you're gone.

For things at a common destination there is a common path. Not always easy to see. But there.

I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.

Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.

You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.

You change or you hide your head in the sand.

My favorite random email I got was from some guy who wrote: "Mr. Max, with the hope of a six year old on the night before Christmas asking about Santa, I ask the same question: Do you really exist?