Personally, I don't believe in anything more supernatural than what you read about in the Bible, and I only believe that one day out of seven.

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.

Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.

For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .

We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.

To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.

We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.

I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.

There’s this human capacity for joy and endurance, even when things are at their worst. A joy that occurs not despite our suffering, but within it.

Memory is a time capsule

Career is just posh slavery.

My biggest influence is rap. It spoke to me, probably because of my upbringing in Christiania. You listen to 'The Chronic' and you can hear that anger and frustration.

A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.

It is well to be independent also well not to be neutral.

Underachievers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose except your fright.

I know that somehow, every step I took since the moment I could walk was a step towards finding you.

But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth Are children of one mother, even Love.

You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say.