My life is a very interior and solitary life. I tend not to care that much about external things.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Self-confidence and self-will are the strength for a sacred accomplishments.

I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.

Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.

When you live in a city with no stars to wish on, you have to wish on each other.

Hours fly, Flowers die: New days, New ways: Pass by! Love stays.

There are certain things that are obviously problems and should be topics of conversation that aren't.

The inclusion of slopestyle in the Olympics is cool. I think it's going to be a total breath of fresh air. The Olympics needs us more than we need it.

If there's a best, I want to fight them.

I love making things, like software, and films, and laughter. And working with Gus Silber, to make the Funny Business book, has been a fantastic journey.

God has allowed some magical reversal to occur, so that you see the scorpion pit as an object of desire, and all the beautiful expanse around it as dangerous and swarming with snakes.