We sell to an affluent demographic, so it is important for us to project a professional image.

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.

Of course I was delighted the flight was over, but I still had to worry about cleaning up inside the cabin, I had to worry about the hatch, how to get in the sling, and so on.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.

I am doing something I hate for you. This is what it means to be in love.

I bought [John Lennon's] 'Plastic Ono Band,' and I listened to it over and over for months. It's a monumental work of genius.

If we can stay with the tension of opposites long enough —sustain it, be true to it—we can sometimes become vessels within which the divine opposites come together and give birth to a new reality.

Darkness can be funny. It can be quirky. There are different ways that that stuff comes out as a creative person. But the actual conflicted, twisted, decaying, rotting soul? That's not me. No more.

I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.

Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant