When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm.

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.

Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find.

punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am

I may have my fault's but being wrong isn't one of them

All scholars are a bit mad. All obsessions are dangerous.

The best way to be thankful for the gift of life is to not throw it away.

It's hard to be a No. 1 when you're not even No. 1 on your team.

There are only two ways of making money: the hard way and the very hard way!

A lot of things happened when I left there, and to be fair they treated me really bad, and now I have to play against them so I don't have any feelings for them at all.

The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real application in life.

The message here is you cannot, under any circumstances, throw an object at an official. You just cannot do it.