If there was one thing I knew, it was that our demons were what shaped who we were. The things we do, the way we act, are all driven by the things we want locked away forever.

The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

Remain humble in your journey as an author and your audience will embrace you. Remain grateful for every publicity opportunity that comes your way, and the media will embrace you.

Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.

In fact, the mark of tragedy became, with time, a mark of glamour.

Good units walk a thin line between indiscipline and ineffectiveness. Ignore the rules too often and you’ve got a mob, but enforce the rules too strictly and you’ve got a herd.

Life doesn't get much better than this.

The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved.

I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I'd better write a book.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Watching young Afghan skaters in the film 'Skateistan' made me realize why I've spent my entire life as a skateboarder.