It's very weird to write a song in your apartment and then realize that this random person knows all the words to it.

I think that's the hardest part about mistakes: Sometimes the consequences aren't physical. Sometimes they simply chip away at the essence of who you are.

think about yourself because selfishness is everywhere

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

Two Irishmen were passing a pub - well, it could happen.

The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened.

I have fallen in love with all sorts of girls and I fully intend to go on doing so.

Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves.

I went to theater school but never really got the chance to do theater, and it's always been a dream of mine.

It's true that Eastern philosophy and religion were not unknown to me as a child, since my father has explored much in that area, and written books more or less in that area, too.