When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

The world is always in movement.

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

To see anything other than ‘as it is’ - that is called the world.

He could lose himself in the copper warmth of her eyes. Except, no, this wasn't losing himself. This was finding something precious.

It's strange how easily we assume that others must be going in the same direction as us.

The opposite of love is apathy or hatred.

Eating chicken without skin is like riding a bike without wheels

My secret is being not terrible at a lot of things.

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

I just use Logic, so I need to get more keyboards and gear. I need to get my Korg.

I think in all small towns, all kind of working class communities around the world. They are kind of similar.

My favorite thing in the world is telling stories, and most of what I do is telling stories through music.