The skyscrapers of the city had finished scraping all the sky away, and the clouds overhead were exactly the color of concrete and I was safe and cold in a canyon of glass and steel.

I try asking him some more questions, but it's like talking to voice mail.

He took me down and out into the afterlife of the brightly lit streets, a haze of rain around each streetlight like a galaxy, the whole street a universe spread out like a banquet.

Time falls on us, like rain, it falls like rain until we drown in it, and sometimes, it's like the drains overflow, and time just - pools up, it seeps, it gathers in the corners.

If you don’t’ know what you want, others will give you what they want.

Knowledge is so comforting, but so is mystery.

The only way to get back the confidence is to play and win matches. You can practise as much as you like, but you need confidence that comes from playing and winning matches.

Hollywood is so governed by the ego, and I never wanted to fall into that trap.

Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.

Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.

The activities of the liberated soul transcend the pairs of opposites.

I never expected this to happen in my lifetime and shall be asking my family to put some champagne in the fridge.

There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have.

Most comedians I know are quite serious, anxious people who find life rather difficult. As a consequence, they make people laugh.