Everything in the street today seems soft focus.

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.

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.

I grew up in what was not so much a familyas a genetic disaster.

Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God.

We lie to protect our children, and in lying we expose them to the greatest of harms

The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends.

Death is not a self-evident phenomenon. The margins between life and death are socially and culturally constructed, mobile, multiple, and open to dispute and reformulation.

People residing within the cult of average don’t like to see others rise. It threatens their security, and spotlights their low self-worth. Go for great, no matter what they say.

So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.

Day full-blown and splendid-day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter, The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness.

If you purify the pond, the lilies die