Don't ever live vicariously. This is your life. Live.

...Seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.

The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

I think women can save civilization.

I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that.

There is an integrity to INXS, in the music, that makes it worthwhile.

You remember the [remarks] you made in 1994 about, 'I think I can guard you, I can shut you down, I would love to play against you?' Well, you're about to get your chance.

I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.

I believe that one of the most important things to learn in life is that you can make a difference in your community no matter who you are or where you live.

Being completely in control is a fantasy.