Take the road to contradiction, it'll lead you, I promise, to the palace of wisdom.

People are mysterious, even to themselves.

No one can be the total cure for another person.

In the end, everything is found to be wanting.

...that out of the quarrel with others we produce rhetoric, matter for the editorial page, while out of the quarrel with ourselves we create art.

Only the past is real.

Just sharing music with each other - that's cool. It's the selling that becomes the problem.

In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary philosophers'.

In a creative journey, it is essential, no matter how far one runs, to examine that which is closest to home.

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.'

The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.

So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure.

Whenever you get game adaptations, it strikes me that it's always the gamers who get mugged because they try and make it for everyone else first and the actual gamers last.

God can't fill you when you are already full of yourself.

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

I actually dream a lot of songs, and I try to be good about voice-memoing ideas.