I used to do horseback riding in the South, and it was just things I'd be pasting. I think my diaries was just an infantile desire to record things. I liked saving things instead of writing.

I like things that don't look like you're in control. It's like life itself. You just learn how to benefit from accidents and chances that you take.

I am a parasite off beauty.

Like society, the diary is a world of useless secrets. Everything is there, yet there is nothing.

I think the camera is a wonderful machine, don't you? And not to take photographs in this century is crazy.

The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively.

The last thing left in nature is the beauty of women.

Letting go is easy. All you do is realize how crazy it is to live in the fantasy land of your mind at the expense of missing real opportunities in reality.

Yeah, Dizzee Rascal is a huge influence on what I'm doing. I learnt a lot from him even though he's younger than me.

And for at least that moment, I wouldn't have traded the hundreds of books I've read for the few I know almost by heart.

You’re so sweet,' Frypan said with a snort. 'Go ahead and die with Thomas. I think I’ll sneak away and enjoy living with the guilt.

Words and works eat not at one table.

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality

I also saw the Dalai Lama a few times.

... freedom isn't the absence of boundaries; it's the ability to operate successfully and happily within boundaries.

I've always kind of done exactly what my instincts said.