Recently, I've discovered Radiohead and find them to be quite good. So clearly, I'm some kind of musical retard. (Jonathan Ames, Middle-American Gothic)

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.

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.

I should probably get a stone. A stone would be good. A stone would save me, would salvage all the damage we had already done, all the things we had given up or lost.

Honestly...this is why I write.I write to get the happy ending I sometimes feel is eluding me.I write for my sanity.

I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

Talent is culture with insolence.

I have never gone out of fashion. And do you know why? Because I never sought it. When you don't seek it, it's always with you.

it isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.

Take and chance and don't ever look back. Never have regrets, just lessons learned.

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

I'm not playing for the All-Star Game, I'm playing to win games.

I've been in a gym probably nine days of my life.