Loneliness is just a thing that I'm not personally interested in. So far, it hasn't been on my docket of things to write about.

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.

It took only a second for another to arrive on the same path as yours and change your life to a point it couldn’t change back. One second.

Make no mistake about it, no matter how kind, meek, humble and soft your giving heart is — you are a warrior!

Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest

If history's any judge, you might have democratic leanings in a revolution but that doesn't necessarily mean that the revolution is going to end up with democratic results.

The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be.

I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.

If you're playing for five hours you don't want to score goals all the time and I loved dribbling. I could score a goal, but I preferred to dribble.

Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet.

First ship them dope, let them deal to brothers, give them guns, step back and watch them kill each other.