I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.

I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.

Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.

Dark sides are important. They should be nurtured like nasty black orchids.

The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.

Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.

My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.

I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.

They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.

Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite

The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose.

That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.

I actually have a little routine I do before every shoot. I put a face mask on before bed and make sure I go to sleep early. Then, I get up early and make myself breakfast and get in a workout.

It's about being smart, taking your time, keeping your composure, just going out there and being the best that you can be

But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.

It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

Only if we realise how sh*t we were at Blackburn can we improve.

The true warrior understands and seizes that moment by giving an effort so intense and so intuitive that it could only be called one from the heart.

It is right that you have to have a tolerance for solitude. But when that solitude bears fruit, you can abandon it. You can be in the company of others.