You have to let people express themselves in the way that they need to express themselves. You have to express yourself in any way possible, provided you're prepared to live with the consequences.

Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.

Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them.

Everything in the street today seems soft focus.

His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with.

don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another

The inspiration can come in such small ways that if you sit there just waiting for the big epiphany you'll sit there for the rest of your life.

I'm not running away, I'm moving on.

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know.

You can't lie to your soul.

What do the vitarags [the enlightended one] say? If you want to be beaten up, then beat others. If you want to be slandered, then slander someone.

What good was speaking when I'd determined none of the world listened to one another, especially not when a woman was speaking.

A conclusion is a place where you got tired of thinking.

Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.

Richard Nixon will always go down as a failure because of one stupid, moral - and that goes back to that last chapter, on principles.

You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save them all.

Nothing seemed impossible in the beginning.

To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.

One time a cop pulled me over for running a stop sign. He said, "Didn't you see the stop sign?" I said, "Yeah, but I don't believe everything I read"