I really believe in challenging myself, pushing myself to new places.

As a result of manifest destiny, we gutted our resources.

Can we really be whoever we want to be, now that we’ve collected all that we are?

I love being a struggling artist; it makes me feel very alive.

You have to smile, if you expect anybody to smile back.

I usually write in my underwear, with a space heater running full blast, and three dogs sleeping at me feet.

My neediness is not a hole to be filled but something beneath the skin scratching to get out.

I know I've lost my mind. But I'm not concerned, because it's the first thing I've lost in a long time that actually feels good.

I discovered John Fante when I was 17 years old - strangely, not through Charles Bukowski, but through William Saroyan, who was his drinking buddy.

You have to find hope. Hope is such a shape shifter. You tend to look in the rearview mirror for hope, but when its gone, you have to look forward. You have to get in the van and keep driving on.

The jocks that used to stuff me into a locker when I was a punk rocker are my best buddies now.

I am convinced that I never wrong anyone intentionally...

Sometimes lies are more dependable than the truth.

Spiraling demand for resources of which our world contains a finite supply is the great long-term threat posed by globalisation. That is why we need new technology to relieve it.

Everything you experience mirrors a part of you.

Eventually, someone is going to pick up a brick.

What is your position at the company? Right back.

Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war.

My favourite dish is my chocolate mousse. It's like heaven on earth. It's the best chocolate mousse that you could ever imagine. You have to start with the highest-quality chocolate.

The best thing you can do for the poor is not to be one of them.

History is not was, it is.