Memory is the faculty of absolution. Men developed memories to ease their disquiet over things they did as men. The deep past is the only innocence and therefore necessary to retain.

How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature.

Vanity is a defensive quality. it contains an element of fear.

Big dreams are important because the awaken the giant that sleeps within you.

Some people will only love you as much as they can use you, their loyalty ends where the benefits cease.

It's very easy for people to put out music.

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.

Real champions fight through adversity.

A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.

Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.

You can't tell your best buddy that you love him.

And when the night is cloudy There is still a light that shines on me Shine on until tomorrow, let it Be...