Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.

If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.

You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.

I don't know how, or whether it is even possible to predict what the world will look like the next day. I simply have to close my eyes, and wait until tomorrow in order to find out.

At some point in your life, this statement will be true: tomorrow you will lose everything forever.

It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do.

Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.

I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because they see it in me.

Enjoy the elastic present, which can accommodate as little or as much as you want to put in there. Stretch it out, live inside of it.

Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire.

You can just sit in here, impervious and invisible. So invisible you might even forget yourself.

The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

If anything, Calvin Klein is the iconic company in terms of fashion. They do have iconic images for their campaigns.

[On golf:] ... though aware I could never be more than a humble potterer, it was impossible to repress the wild upsurgings of hope known to all middle-aged beginners.

You can very easily be turned into a commodity. I've grown up with it.

I've been very lucky being in New York. While there are many things that have impacted my life, I have been able to stay here and do my own work.

The world isn't purposeful. It isn't ruled by reason. The world wants to play. Fashion queens have always aroused more interest than future generations and their fate.

To be a fully functioning moral agent, one cannot passively accept moral principles handed down by fiat. Moral principles require moral reasoning.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

You can't go wrong with some nuts. The key word is 'some.' Eat them one at a time, not by the handful.