When I see my friends engaging in a Twitter war for an afternoon, I think that would destroy me for a month.

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

Time is how you spend your love.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.

Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

To achieve self actualization, do good things for other people that you would want to be done onto yourself

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

Danger Mouse is now working on a bunch of other records, translating his ideas about remixing into all sorts of other projects.

the beauty of America, neither cool jazz nor devoured Egyptian heroes, lies in lives in the darkness I inhabit in the midst of sterile millions

The man who broods over the past can never master the difficulties of today. Every wise man learn to forget.

[Everybody Loves Somebody] was a different take on that immigrant sort of life.

Feeling a little blue in January is normal.

If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be messed-up.

Treasure is stored in the ruined places. Do not break the hearts of the poor and heartbroken people

letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.