If anyone hits me, they can expect to be hit back, and harder. I never turn the other cheek because in my experience that doesn’t work.

What a waste my life would be without all the beautiful mistakes I've made.

If anyone hits me, they can expect to be hit back, and harder. I never turn the other cheek because in my experience that doesn't work.

I don’t want to accidentally end up looking back on my life to find that I’m ashamed of myself, I want to live a life I can be proud of.

My sexuality is not an inferior trait that needs to be chaperoned by emotionalism or morality.

The longer you live, the more dreams you should have to keep you occupied.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

If it’s reality you want, I suggest you look out the window.

You are an atheist if you do not believe in yourself.

When all is lost, but life, really nothing is lost.

[Camus] "The meaning if my works: so many men are deprived of mercy. How to live without mercy? One must try and do what Christianity never did: to take care of the damned.

Learning means change.

My experience is the opposite.

The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the shadow of apparently irrevocable disaster.

I come from the tradition of a big Irish family that loves to sing. I love to perform.

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.