It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there.

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.

Trust is a hard thing to win back.

I may not be a politician, but I will fight to the end of my life for what I believe in.

Normally you're 21 years old and you look like Tom Cruise and you do a couple underwear commercials first and then you're a movie star. That didn't happen for me. So it was all quite overwhelming.

The way I write is generally about love. I have a great fascination about the subject.

Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.

The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.

Art must touch our lives, our fears and cares – evoke our dreams and give hope to the darkness.

One works without thinking how to work.

There's a deep-freeze of sorts for all good intentions - a place that you store your plans to make changes in your life when you know you're not going to make them at all.

True love is your souls recognition of its counterpoint in another.