I eat the same foods but half the quantity.

I can lose myself in the Universe.

I have total control over everything. I'm doing it all for me.

Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world.

He pressed himself into me and kissed my neck, and it was as if everything strong and solid inside me, heart and bones and muscle and gut, softened and melted from the heat of him.

We are a society that values a man for what he does in the world, a woman for how she looks.

Entertainment and art have power. Our culture is molded more so by entertainment than any other influence.

With this type of thing there are always different opinions and mine is that it is impossible to blame either one of us. [on a crash with Heidfeld]

In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.

True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.

As a writer, I have always considered it my job to describe the world as I know it; to struggle toward whatever portion of the truth is available to me.