Advice for a human 86. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances, so does indifference. It is a disease. Immunize yourself with art. And love.

Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.

Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.

You reach a certain age -- sometimes it's fifteen, sometimes it's forty-six -- and you realize the cliche you have adopted for yourself isn't working.

This was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt inside smiles. Everything was hidden away.

Flowers, after love, must have been the best advert planet Earth had going for it.

Obey your head. Obey your heart. Obey your gut. In fact, obey everything except commands.

Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans.

Vampire? Such a provocative word, wrapped in too many clichés and girly novels.

Dark matter is needed to hold galaxies together. Your mind is a Galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile.

All that humans create serves solely to lessen the terror of existence.

Please beware, " came his reply, "There are a lot of people who believe that just because we don't have an explanation for something, it's quantum mechanics.

Language is the only homeland.

Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice.

As I was saying to the landlord only this morning: 'You can't have everything'.

Stop me when I'm making too much sense.

Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you win.

What I do . . . the path I tread . . . it brings some choices that test me hard.

Until I learned to love myself, I was never ever lovin' nobody else.

Maybe I bring people into that pop world who don't usually find themselves there because there's not enough stuff for them to get excited about otherwise.

Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.