Tangier is one of the few places left in the world where, so long as you don't proceed to robbery, violence, or some form of crude, antisocial behavior, you can do exactly what you want.

We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

It’s amazing what you can do when you get creative.

Now, he realized, he simply had to take what he wanted. He had to control the winds, not the other way around (p. 434).

False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.

When I was a very little boy, I lived underneath the air pattern of LaGuardia airport in New York and I watched the planes fly to their destinations. I was in love with the design of these airplanes.

There are boys so enraptured by love that they can't get their hearts to slow down enough to get some rest, and other boys so damaged by love that they can't stop picking at their pain.

We always think we know what we want: when in truth there is nothing we are less likely to know.

One time, Niall sat on the floor for hours trying to find a way of putting his M&M's in alphabetical order.

The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.

I'm a much more chill person now that I know who I am and know my own voice, so I don't really get nervous with live TV at all.

It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.