I had a guitar leaning against the wall and I'd squint at it. It was almost like a dog that had been kicked - I didn't think I had anything to offer it.

There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.

Life is problems. Living is solving problems.

Instead of just looking back, whiplash-style, I can assume there's something else coming. Time just folds over itself, like origami.

I'm a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies.

There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.

A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.

But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.

I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and I magnetize over to the green spots.

I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.

In life we struggle to make sense of it all.When we should just except the way life is and make it better for all concerned.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

I do think that stand-up comedy in general heavily favors masculinity and so I like to act a little feminine onstage.

The day was made for laziness, and lying on one's back in green places, and staring at the sky till its brightness forced one to shut one's eyes and go to sleep.

It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.

Hurry up: your dreams are waiting for you, but they will not wait forever

The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.

Gods induction, life's construction, these instruct will save every living thing. Can't you see that life's connected?

Just what part of meow don't you understand?

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.