I think one of the things about ageing is the jagged peaks become a little bit mellower...? Heheh. And I feel like I'm able to understand a little bit better where that sort of tack comes from.

Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.

Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire-breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

You don't even realize you're living in a before until you wake up one day and find yourself in an after.

Evil must always be fought.

I don't care if I get kicked out of every rich kid club on the planet. I will never sacrifice my integrity as a DJ...ever.

People don't want other people to be people.

For what it’s worth: trust your feelings. I can’t promise that you’ll never get hurt again, but I can promise you the risk is worth it.

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me.

I don't mind what you call yourself, so long as your heart is being true to you.

Tragedy cannot be the end of our lives. We cannot allow it to control and defeat us.

Be excellent and party on dudes.

We do not know why we are born into the world, but we can try to find out what sort of a world it is - at least in its physical aspects.

I think the most important thing is that everybody is happy creating, and doing what they want to do, and have really great relationships with each other.

In order to address world economic imbalances, countries around the world should make joint efforts to adjust their economic structure.

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

I had forgotten that Jess felt about long words the way that racists feel about black people: She hated them, and wanted to send them back from where they came from.

The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.