I need to feel strongly, to love and admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe.

If I must drool, I may as well drool on cashmere.

Does the cosmos contain keys for opening my diving bell? A subway line with no terminus? A currency strong enough to buy my freedom back? We must keep looking.

Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories.

We thread our way through a moving forest of ice-cream cones and crimson thighs.

Does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person’s true nature?

In that hothouse atmosphere, criminal records bloomed like orchids all around us.

Vincent had ten major ideas every week: three brilliant, five good, and two ridiculous.

Courage is leaning into the doubts and fears to do what you know is right even when it doesn’t feel natural or safe.

Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, you will be a mile away from him, and you will have his shoes.

"But" is a fence over which few leap.

The British are very stubborn. The Queen, the Commonwealth, and the special relationship with the U.S. is much more important than Europe.

Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it.

Find your soul and you'll live. Lose your soul and you'll die.

I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.

I still feel like an immature idiot inside, but I look in the mirror and - as a friend of mine once said- this old guy keeps getting in the way.

A wah-wah is important as well. I love it; it makes the guitar scream.