Everybody was willing to give me a job. But I wanted to do something different. I saw myself as an independent person, self-employed.

Facts are almost irrelevant to most people. We make decisions based on emotion and then justify them later with whatever facts we can scrounge up in our defense.

If we want to change things, we must first change ourselves. If we want to play - if we want to change the world - we must first show up on the field to score.

Pastors started killing their church members and church members killed pastors. Husbands killed wives. It's a situation no one can describe.

I think I'm a happy man, and I'm a blessed man. I have been able to adjust to any situation, whatever it was, in my life.

"There is no greater gift to an insecure leader that quite matches a vague enemy who can be used to whip up fear and hatred among the population."

This is why I say that the individual's most potent weapon is a stubborn belief in the triumph of common decency.

We are all born with a powerful herd instinct and it can force otherwise rational people to act in inexplicable ways.

Our days are so few, our existences so complicated. As long as we're breathing we shouldn't further complicate our lives.

History never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up.

Oh, sweetheart. What can anyone do? That's just the way things are. You really think you can change the world?

Humanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation, which is one of the most passionate forms of love.

Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write.

I'm perfectly happy complaining, because it's cathartic, and I'm perfectly happy arguing with people on the Internet because arguing is my favourite pastime - not programming.

It's evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.

Bollywood actors are so set in what they want, and the way they want it. And why shouldn't they be? But it is not the same in Hollywood, because the love of the audience is not the same.

That's why I love fighting, because I get to have a big battle every couple months to make up for the little battles I have to forfeit every day

But if you want to find peace, you must first be able to hope it is possible.

Though one cannot always Remember exactly why one has been happy, There is no forgetting that one was.

For me, my music has always been like an open diary.