People always thought if no one believed in God and we were nihilists then people would go around murdering each other. That didn't happen at all, we just bought a lot of things with credit.

I should kill myself. Things would be better if I did. For me anyway. I don’t know how it would affect global warming or penguins in Antarctica. But it might help me.

When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept that they exist.

Are we looking for the absolute truth or the absolute feeling? Or the answer that best suits our personal needs?

I have no interest in dying.But I have to. I have to care one day about things that don't matter to me.

When your novel first peeks its head into the world, it will look pretty much like every newborn: blotchy, hairless, and utterly confused.

After looking at Salomaybe, I don't know who the hell the real me is. I think it's closest now to the real me because for one thing, I'm used to this.

We were most creative when our back was against the wall.

We elected a President, not a Pope.

You need to live in a dome initially but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on. ... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.

That good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem. It is a human problem.

I don't think spending time in Ottawa is a good use of my time as the leader.

Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.

There are kids out there who'd chop their legs off to play football for Brighton

I see myself as quite feminine. But many people seem to think differently about that; sometimes people mistake me for a man. In Paris I often hear 'bonjour monsieur'.