It was like setting up a guillotine in the public square.You don't expect a thousand people to line up to put their heads in it.

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.

count no man happy until he be dead.

I want to do a good job living today.

The meaning of life is life itself

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure.

Those folks out in the space suits are going to be getting beat up.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

There's a lot of opportunities for scene-stealing if you're a dog.

Always have sunglasses with you. They're great for when you can't be bothered to put make-up on.

The difference between a friend and an acquaintance is that a friend helps; an acquaintance merely advises.

No one can be cured of being who they are.