The work really isn't about the specific content to me. As I'm putting things together, it's more about consistencies in form.

I feel like metaphors are best when they spin in place. Like when they work and don't work, or lead to a bigger question.

I don't hate things, but I'm turned off by arrogance. I also don't like power for the sake of power.

All great dreamers have great faith.

All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.

But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.

No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.

I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools.

I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about.

It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your sock drawer, so you could touch it again.

Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!

People don't understand what term "selling out" means. To me selling out means if I were to stop doing this and go work for McDonald's then I would sell out.