I couldn't name more than a couple of good drum'n'bass acts, and I have no idea what's big in the dance world right now.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

The intellect shows profit-loss in all worldly things. It shows duality. The intellect is the mother of duality.

The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature.

Stories choose us, not the other way around.

Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.

I am not pro-abortion any more than I am pro-appendectomy.

When I die, people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst. They want to avoid the feeling of pity. As though they were the people most concerned!

Life is a breathing-space between two eternities, a holiday with appalling realities behind and before.

Tedium is the bane of immortality.

I read constantly because there is so much to learn from the writing in the world.

Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.