If you think I'm annoying and preachy now, you should have known me in grade school.

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.

You too can become great but only thanks to the number of hours you are able to convert into products.

The almighty dollar that great object of universal devotion throughout our land seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages.

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.

My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I'm going to believe Jesus instead.

Magnus, I wish I had the nerve to wear the kind of pants you do.

At the economic summit in China, Vladimir Putin is being accused of flirting with the first lady of China. Then again, Putin does have a history of not respecting boundaries.

I look around my life and it's hard to believe that music has given me all that I have.

Everyone is mine - no matter what.

I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak.