Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.

Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.

Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.

Still-there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring changes.

Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life

It'd be nice to have a new name, to start with, one that's not all worn out from being called so much.

For some, time passes slowly. An hour can seem like an eternity. For others, there was never enough. For Jesse Tuck, it didn't exist.

Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't.

You dont have to live forever just live.

Facts are the barren branches on which we hang the dear, obscuring foliage of our dreams.

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.

You can't have thousands of people being shot in a city, in a country that I happen to be president of. Maybe it's OK if somebody else is president.

I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.

Fulfillment of desire taken to extremes doesn't necessarily make us happy. It tends to make us rather cynical.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

I became Iggy because I had a sadistic boss at a record store. I'd been in a band called the Iguanas. And when this boss wanted to embarrass and demean me, he'd say, 'Iggy, get me a coffee, light.'

It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want.

I have not seen any Christian sparrow or Muslim lion or Jewish elephant! Animals are lucky as they have not yet invented the religion!

I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!