In the current state of society, it seems to me that man is corrupted more by reason than by passion.

Be your own self. Love what YOU love.

If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds.

When happiness becomes our standard for judging truth, things that make us happy give us permission to do some things that otherwise would be considered wrong.

A novelist should make you realize nothing is stable. If you don't believe anything with robustness, you're doing something more radical than anything else.

I lost everything. When I was 28 years old, I lost my home, my job, my partner. I had many people die in my life. I felt like a total victim.

And what in the name of Merlin’s most baggy Y Fronts was that about?

I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.

Apologies are not pass/fail.

The source is within you. And this whole world is springing up from it.

The Beatles are not merely awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music.