Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.

Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them.

Everything in the street today seems soft focus.

His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with.

don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another

The inspiration can come in such small ways that if you sit there just waiting for the big epiphany you'll sit there for the rest of your life.

I'm not running away, I'm moving on.

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know.

You can't lie to your soul.

I grew up in what was not so much a familyas a genetic disaster.

You can touch the moon if you really want to do it.

You're both living these lives you didn't choose to live in a world full of people telling you what that's supposed to mean. That's messed up.

There are stories that don't need a plot. Sooner or later they rise above the confusion and untangle their mysteries in a series of sentences.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

The way that I am now, I don't want to accept mediocrity. I don't want to accept the easy road.

when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living.

Mountains should not be judged by altitude.

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.