I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

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.

Everything in the street today seems soft focus.

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.

Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.

Patience is what is needed to see through any process of production.

We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.

Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.

. . . how man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood . . . he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.

I think it's unnecessary to be mean for the sake of being mean, but I do believe you have to be truthful, but with love.

Accessibility drives traffic and growth in technology. That's a proven trend in technology.

I'm an actress, model and athlete, and I'd put athlete third on the list.

If you don't fall down, you aren't trying hard enough.

Well, Ramadi is a provincial capital of Anbar province. It's a sprawling city west of Baghdad. It's a poor city, endless cinderblock houses and high-rises almost as far as the eye can see.