Every time I opened my mouth, flame licked up my throat. I could have razed vil­lages, kid­napped princesses.

If you think you can stand looking and not touching for eight months, you're welcome to try.""Try' being the operative word, " he said, sighing. "No, I can't. And I don't want to try.

We looked at each other with that resentment you feel when you want something so much it’s causing you pain, so much you start to hate it a little.

Some girls had mothers who never called them beautiful but swore their love up and down. It's all the same, really. All bullshit.

Religion and nationalism? I defecate on the altar of religious conviction, and wipe my arse on the flag of national pride.

There's nothing you can find - … nothing you can even imagine – that doesn't originate, develop, or exist in relation to other things.

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

Consensus is something you have if you cannot have agreement.

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.

When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life, I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time.

I remember a day and time when the streets indicated what was hot online, and now I think it's starting to reverse a little bit.

I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe.

I'm still digging long-established bands like U2 - they're new to me!

Drink poison rather than worry.