That's the wonderful thing about writing, you can take things you haven't done properly in your own life and make it better in fiction.

Natural law is only whatever happens in your lifetime within fifty miles of you.

Protecting yourself from failure is probably not a good way to live.

There's never one "ding-dong" moment.You never know for sure if you're doing the right thing. Things don't end all at once.

Whenever you do die people remember you, so it's not completely over. You don't 100 percent die when you die ever, because people still know who you were.

While I was not entirely satisfied with the circumstances of my existence, I felt like the possibility of improvement still existed. That I could make happiness happen.

Judy shook her head when she saw me the next day, dressed in the same clothes I had worn to work the day before. “We used to call that the walk of shame, ” she said.

Friends are a weird thing. It seems like they know all about you, but then they don’t understand you at all.

This is the grand fiction of tourism, that bringing our bodies somewhere draws that place closer to us, or we to it. It's a quick fix of empathy.

I'm much more of a kid now than I was when I was a kid. I was the kind of kid who was valedictorian, a straight-A student. My mom used to say, "Please stop studying and get outside."

I'm not the biggest fan of comedies where nothing is real.

While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy, he shot it to me on a poisoned arrow.

You can dwell on things, and if you open your eyes and pay attention to it, those things start popping up around you.

If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now.

I have made stage adjustments which allow me to hear myself better onstage so that has made playing live much more enjoyable.

I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.