Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity)

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.

I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.

Why are we occupied with material wealth than spiritual nourishment?

It's the wrong way. She's farther away from the door now. It occurs to me that some people only have book smarts.

When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust.

The problem with people nowadays is that a 'necessity' is any luxury your neighbor happens to have.

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print.

The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.

My brother's researched our early family history. He found a letter from a fella who said he used to be in love with my mum.

We can affect people around us so much with our moods. A depressed person can make a room gloomy and a sweet nature can cause the lion to lie down with the lamb.

Now I look beyond what I can't do and focus on what I CAN.