No one can be cured of being who they are.

I thought I wanted the truth, but I don't. The past is the past and it can't be changed. It's the future I'm interested in." -Gabriel McGregor

She might not be as beautiful, or as smart or as rich as all the rest of them. But she had her pride

You can never go back.Never.Not if you want to survive.

Act for the joy and beauty of action not for the fruits of creation.

Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of reality is not your reality.

You think that you're in control of your life.Well, think again.

You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.

We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.

Fear is the reason for making art. It is a means to freedom.

I'd say that most of life seems to me to be that way, a mixture of the mundane and the mythic, when you're living the life of the mind.

There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.