When you make a man ashamed, you make him dangerous.

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.

In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know this because it started whispering to me when I was in the detention center.

Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.

on a bike ride through the Surrey Lanes, pedalling in my cotton dress through the hot fields blushing with poppies, freewheeling down a sudden dip into a cool wooded sanctum.

Exposing corruption, brandishing truth.

I want to be a journalist again. I want to make a difference in the world.

There are countries of the world, and regions of one's own mind, where it is unwise to travel.

Let them say whatever gives them comfort.

Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time.

I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. I wanted to be able to breathe again.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

I am all for the short and merry life.

I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.

If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don't worry about what anybody thinks.

To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.

I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.

The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea

The hardest lesson I've had to learn in my life is that my intelligence is inversely correlated to my humility. The more I thought I knew, the less I actually knew.