In some ways, you can say that at any time in any writer's career: 'He might have run out of ideas.'

Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.

Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them.

Everything in the street today seems soft focus.

His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with.

don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another

The inspiration can come in such small ways that if you sit there just waiting for the big epiphany you'll sit there for the rest of your life.

I'm not running away, I'm moving on.

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know.

You can't lie to your soul.

We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then just like real sisters, we listen and don't judge.

None of us know how to fix ourselves, at least not entirely, not well enough.

It's what you don't see that keeps you on the edge of your seat in any kind of film - leave it to the imagination of the viewer.

In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life

If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.

What I really like is minimum effort for maximum effect.

I didn't feel particularly close to my father.

Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint.

The fact that educated white women automatically assume that we have similar backgrounds annoys me. We don't. I feel like I'm in a certain kind of drag.

It is only in the depths of silence that the voice of God can be heard.