It might have been my human side clamoring for blood, or my alien side looking for a chance to exercise strategic dominance over a lesser life form. Either way, I was going to win.

What was the point, I had to wonder, of fighting so hard to learn to protect my life if I was destroying it in the process?

No. Not a death wish. Just very little left to lose.

That was, in fact, my life. A whole series of reasonable lies.

So it turns out that late-night flashes of brilliance often look a little less brilliant in the bright light of morning.

Pretending to feel something you don't can often lead you to the real thing, in some form.

So what did it matter where she came from? Who-or what-her parents were? Everyone's family was messed up in some way including my own. And she was still the same Ariane.

Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.

People says you are not going to take anything with you at the end but people, mind that you are going to leave a lot behind you.So be precise for your deeds n trail you left. :)

Make every effort to hear directly from God.

Painted faces, sun burnt skin, fixed expressions, smiles worn thin.

Standup comedy is fun. I mean other than having to experience the excruciating lonlieness and unacknowledged sadness that results in funny.

Content to me is very important, but I like it when [the photograph] is also enigmatic. If you don't know what it is you begin to speculate, and that is what I want.

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

Sitting in a hotel room just makes you sit and think about things.

Old man's gotta be the old man. Fish has got to be the fish. Gotta be who you are in this world, no matter what.

In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.