Nothing comes of so many things, if you have patience.

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!

I say I am stronger than fear.

I'm from Sweden. We don't wear clothes in Sweden.

At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played.

The gas-law of learning: . . . any amount of information no matter how small will fill any intellectual void no matter how large.

To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.

I'm more of a culture hummingbird.

He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?

You have a freedom in playing the villain. You can be a lot more out there, really. And there is a joy in that. There is a joy in kind of making a zone of psychoses.

Twitter, for all its good, is a hate amplifier.

The meaning of the presupposition is the method of verification… we know the meaning of the statement if we know the conditions under which the statement is true or false.