I went to Saudi Arabia in 2010, and spent most of my time in Jeddah and the King Abdullah Economic City.

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

The rest is just wishes and hope, the most fragile of things.

I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley

I get it. The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.

These elites, preferring to work in private, are rarely found posed for photographers, and their influence upon events has therefore to be deduced from what is known of the agencies they employ.

Reasons come first. Answers come second

I'm not a list person.

If there's something that I really need to say that I can't say by speaking to someone, I usually write it in a song or a letter to someone.

I guess many game music fans prefer original soundtrack albums.

Let us seek to live in a way that is always worthy of our Christian vocation

Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.