When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight.

You are everything you should be, and all that is enough. Be proud of who you are, and love who you will become.” – Lady Lalaigne to Nhakira, “Chosen

We learn to praise God not by paying compliments but by paying attention.

You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.

It's the first time I've been cold for seven years. I was never cold playing rugby league.

The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring.

I have a lot to say about the world, clearly. I can't put together a clear sentence about it all, but through the work I can say what I think.

The world, that grey-bearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable.

It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.

In life the loser's score is always zero.