Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world.

And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought.

I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.

On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

You love someone, you've got to let something go.

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

Enjoy being with yourself, you will then not feel alone.

In a crowd do not lose your individuality, and in your individuality do not lose the crowd.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't.

Kill yourself in training so you don't die fighting.

Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself.

When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot.

If the enemies of the SA are hoping that the SA will not return from leave, we are ready to let them enjoy the hope for a short time.

I'd see child actors and I'd get so jealous, because they're just completely wide open.

The "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" hitchhiker really made people never want to hitchhike again - the hitcher, the show. Hitchhiking is always vaguely sexual.

You shall find this to be God's usual course: not to give his children the taste of his delights till they begin to sweat in seeking after them.