I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia.

Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.

Why can’t our job here on earth be simply to inspire each other?

The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven.

The mist hung in the air like a prancing unicorn.

The blood in my veins is frozen but it sings of love.

The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.

I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.

I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.

In any case the friendships of later life, in contrast wih those negotiated before thirty, are apt to be burdened with reservations, constraints, inhibitions.

Success comes only through strong will, determination and effort.

Its hard to pretend to love someone when you don't but its harder to pretend that you don't love someone when you really do..

The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

I think that's the struggle of our normality is that we have oppressed desires because of what is accepted and not accepted in society.

I've been making music for as long as I can remember. I would, as a kid, just sing little ideas or be making something.

Too often, chefs just want to experiment - they want to use liquid nitrogen before they know how to use heat.

Across the board, people are looking at the problem, but simply not changing anywhere near fast enough.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.