There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don't really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping.

Minds have their own weather systems. You are in a hurricane. Hurricanes run out of energy eventually. Hold on.

Forcing yourself to see the world through love's gaze can be healthy. Love is an attitude to life. It can save us.

That kind of monotony that running generates - the one soundtracked by heavy breathing and the steady rhythm of feet on pavements - became a kind of metaphor for depression.

One cliche attached to bookish people is that they are lonely, but for me books were my way out of being lonely.

The way out is never through yourself.

I wanted to be dead. No. That's not quite right. I didn't want to be dead, I just didn't want to be alive.

Goals are the source of misery. An unattained goal causes pain, but actually achieving it brings only a brief satisfaction.

A million people a year kill themselves. Between ten and twenty million people a year try to. Worldwide, men are over three times more likely to kill themselves than women.

Hate is a pointless emotion to have inside you. It is like eating a scorpion to punish it for stinging you.

There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet.

When you live in darkness, you live under the rulership of the devil.

You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

If ever we find the truth to be offensive, then we must be prepared to change what is true.

Your body and the environment around you may reflect the disturbing and unusual activities unfolding across the globe as the planet evolves.

The worst thing ever that you have to explain your joke because I was very disappointed trying to explain why the joke is funny for the interrogator.

I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.

I don't put on my best clothes to make a film, my Sunday best.

The really important people in TV are not the directors; they're the writers.

Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear.