I really don't think records should be made in the manner where you sit and write, and when you're finished writing, you start recording. That just seems conventional and old-fashioned to me.

It takes ten times longer to get rid of your reputation than it does to make it.

I am done looking for love where it doesn’t exist. I am done coughing up dust in attempts to drink from dry wells.

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

The world is progressing and resources are becoming more abundant. I'd rather go into a grocery store today than a king's banquet a hundred years ago.

You know you've reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up.

The man who claims he's never done anything courageous doesn't understand what courage really is.

It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.

Everything that's difficult you should be able to laugh about.

Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?

I hated the reflection in the mirror. I wanted so much to be someone else... I thought that if I was thinner, the rest of my life would change.