Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

Still though, I think if you're not self-obsessed, you're probably boring.

My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create anxiety if I do not do it. No one lives up to his ideal.

Jesus said when you pray say "Our Father which art in heaven." He did not say "Our Judge which art in heaven". #grace #gospel

I never listened to country music growing up.

I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth.

Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.

It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.

Art achieves all little things by absolute truth: but all her great things need some admixture of illusion.

You win the fight in the training camp, not on the day of the fight.

What hostile parasite is tunneling through her sphincter? (Zarina)