You're breaking out of character, again.

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.

What other people think about me is not my business.

You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here.

It is deplorable...to remove all the romance - all the mystery!

Please make me either relatable or terrible.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own.

Everyone needs to start somewhere.

Honestly," she sighed, "I don't know what kind of life we'll have together, with me always flying off in one direction and you in the other." I smiled. "It's a good thing the world's round," I said.

One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.

I like driving. I'm a real sucker for driving across North America - I never get sick of it, ever.

So how can I hold Tobias’s desperation against him, like I’m better than him, like I’ve never let my own brokenness blind me?