The two things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but the greatest of these was dogs.

And there are new kinds of nomads, not people who are at home everywhere, but who are at home nowhere. I was one of them

I believe when you’re stuck in one spot for too long it’s best to throw a grenade where you stand, and jump…and pray.

When there is no one to remind you what society's rules are, and there is nothing to keep you linked to that society, you had better be prepared for some startling changes.

I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.

I believe that the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditional, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up.

Some of us just don't want to be famous ... anonymity cannot be bought for any price, once you have lost it.

Real travel would be to see the world, for even an instant, with another's eyes

The most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.

It is better to proceed with one's duty in the service of others than wallow in the pain attachments bring

Why didn't my father get to give Mom the fairy tale? Why do most people fail to give each other the fairy tale?

It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself.

no job, no matter how lowly, is truly 'unskilled.

A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.

The definition of the word nerd has changed. It's now any attractive person with a hobby. The loneliness component is no longer included.

Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line.

The worst reason to do magic is the desire to display your superiority to your fellow humans.

Dignity and love do not blend.

When I was 21 I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for The Simpsons who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life.