When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that out in one fell swoop sometimes.

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.

May living your truth set you free!

Love has no time constraints.There is no time frame for when a person can fall in love with another, it just happens.It's spontaneous, unpredictable, it's timeless.

To pray together in whatever tongue or ritual is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.

I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful.

Music is the universal language no matter the country we are born in or the color of our skin. Bring us all together.

I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never be resolved.

You, sir, are a ray of sunshine. -Percy Jackson