Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.

Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life.

When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.

Remote villages and rural communities have lost their identity, and their charm and peace have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.

All my roots are still in the prarie country of the Middle West.

The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.

It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.

It doesn’t much matter whether people care or don’t care. What matters is that people change the world.

Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other.

Meet the sun every morning as if it could cast a ballot.

Virtue in its grandest aspect is neither more nor less than following reason.

In "Drive," there's a heightened male edge. In "Only God Forgives," it was almost crawling back into the womb of the mother. And now with "The Neon Demon," being reborn as a 16-year-old girl.

At this club, all I see is great backing all the way down for me and I will be judged on results like the next man. (on being Manchester City manager)

Now I'm a little hurt. Let me check my tears in the reflection of my championship gold.

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.