There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men.

There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.

She never imagined that at twenty years old she'd already be a widow in black. On the bright side, she was no longer married to Dario, but her future still looked grim.

You're being parental', I said. 'Go find that squid'.

I was 18 when I started. I was hanging out with some friends and they asked if I had tried stand-up before. I hadn't, but I thought: 'What the hell?' So I went to an open mic night, and I liked it.

Art always has something of the unconscious about it.

There is no way you can think outside of your culture.

Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation

I always like the current one [collection] the most, that's just my nature!

The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.

Am I the only one who secretly hopes that the Curiosity rover will be swallowed up by a giant alien worm living just below Mars's surface?