I'm not really a mass market writer.

Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said

Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.

You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying

If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.

Live today, for tomorrow we die.

I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.

The best Paris I know now is in my head.

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

You have to live the way you are going to end up.

I have respect for beer.

Research shows you get multiple tasks done faster if you do them one at a time. It also decreases stress and raises happiness.

I create a different playlist for each and every [NFL] game. Before the game, to gametime, to warmups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.

I was watching MTV and there were girls dancing in suspended cages. That would be an ambivalent situation: "I'm trapped! ...but enjoying the music".

I would never write, ever. I might as well exile myself.

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

More than guided missiles, all the world needs guided men.

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

People always ask me 'do you think there should be more bands doing political music?' and I say 'absolutely not.'