It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her.

Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.

Suicide is an act of man and not of the animal.

you areas fleetingly beautifulas a mother’s tearsand a father’s pranksa brother’s bachelorhoodand a best friend’s bad mooda bride’s glittering jittersand a handsome stranger’s smile.

It's better to die doing good than to live doing evil.

The characters are telling you the story. I'm not telling you the story, they're going to do it. If I do it right, you will get the whole story.

The only way to kill militancy, to reduce it, is to provide opportunities to people who have no opportunities. I've always told my American friends that.

We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite.

We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa or the Soviet Union.

Self-esteem is an inner feeling: Sometimes it corresponds with outer reality, and sometimes it doesn’t.