I once knew a girl who didn't know where anywhere was in the world. Not a clue. I asked her if she knew where Africa was and she answered, 'Is it the orange one on a map?'

I want truth. I'm crying out to hear it. I need it like oxygen.

I'm a Taurus, you know. A bull. I belong in a field.

We must remember to enjoy ourselves.

Seven thirty in the morning is too early for a man of my standing.

I have two vintage typewriters. One just about works and the other hasn't a hope in hell, bless it. But they're both beautiful, and they'll stay with me just as long as there's a roof over my head.

I can't abide small talk.

I've spent so much of my adult life in relationships that it's actually quite pleasant to be alone at last. I turned thirty-six the other day, which staggers me when I think about it.

I'm the worst ad anyone could possibly be for abstaining from anything.

I like a decent funeral, and God knows in my family we've seen enough of them. Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.

Milk which is just about to turn is akin to that moment spent on the cusp of failure in a dulled and fettered relationship.

Saying goodbye to someone you love isn’t really the hard part. It’s living every day, not being able to say anything to them at all.

If peace had a smell, it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.

Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.

Fermentation is the exhalation of a substance through the admixture of a ferment which, by virtue of its spirit, penetrates the mass and transforms it into its own nature.

I don't want to give my opponent the satisfaction of watching me celebrate, which would make it look like a big deal that I beat him.

My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.

I'd crawl over broken glass for Elle MacPherson or Cindy Crawford.

I worked for the recreation and parks department for a year.

Music is always my great escape... I get to be that wild child and do whatever the hell I want on stage.

Seeing yourself as responsible for the quality of your relationship, as a prime mover in your life, I think is a bold, amazing step.