We all fall to the floor at some point. It's how you pick yourself up that's the real challenge. Isn't it?

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.

With every breath, I'm deeper in you.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

I always acted like a star long before I was one.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

I read, and, in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown.

You are who you are what you say you are to people, but who are you when no one is watching?

I learn from everything I do, right and wrong. I think it helps me grow as a writer and a person.

What an idiot

My mum used to always dress me and my sister in matching Laura Ashley dresses. And I'd be like, 'Mum, I just wanna wear my Doc Martens!

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was longer and more cumbersome than Newton's.

Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.

I love music more than I love people.

For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple 'em all together. But publishers have been resistent, feeling the material dates.

I mean, we're always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.