I needed it to have experiences I could write about. I thought I was someone who had nothing to say.

Familiarity isn't always a good thing... sometimes you need a little crisis to shake things up.

Though I feared I would have no progress when I put down the drink, [my writing] hasn't changed. The creative search, and the fragments that I collect, reflects that.

When in doubt, ignore and be horribly unimpressed

To be afraid of sorrow is to be afraid of joy also.

I work pretty hard for a sufficient living, and therefore – yes, I do well.

I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.

Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That's what I want to know.

When I try to brush the road dust off of me and untangle all the wires in my head, I'm usually surrounded by music on a boat. But that's not how I wake up every day.

An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity.

We only keep what we lose.

I did try to win a sixth, but it was not to be.

You can not define being exactly on time.