I was born in 1991, and Harry Potter came out in 97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.

There was no normal. There never had been. "Normal" and "natural" were the biggest lies we'd ever created.

Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can't get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always.

his thumbs ran over my cheeks. Our foreheads touched. My dreamscape scorched. He set fire to the poppies

Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.

I would never see him again. But as I watched the tunnel race before my eyes, I was certain of one thing: I did trust him. Now I had only to trust in myself.

I looked at him and he looked at me. A moment. A choice. My choice. His choice.

Nothing’s worse than a story without an end.

I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.

I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, Im afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.

Not all of us know what we are. Some of us die without ever knowing. Some of us know, and never get caught. But we're out there. Trust me.

Mama learned to laugh with them, before they could laugh at her, and to do it so well no one could be sure what she really thought or felt.

Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.

John Wayne was the meanest, nastiest man with the worst attitude that I ever worked with.

You've got to listen to the universe, to life, to God, whatever you want to call it. Because its going to speak to you.

Champions are brilliant at the basics.

It’s perfectly natural for me to sit down and talk about meditating and spiritual practice with my friends. But then I realize, how would it sound to a drunk cynical guy in London?

Don't be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done.

I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.