Live every single day doing something relevant

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

Following your dreams is better than being led by your fears.

Search me O God and know my heart: try me and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me.

Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure.

Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind.

I just don't conform very well.

Money no longer has any meaning. Civilization is coming to an end. If not the destruction of the world, it's an endless stalemate.

When you're writing you're affected by everything that's going on around you.