The first job of a writer is to be honest.

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.

Out of all the magic words in existence, kind words produce the most powerful transformation spells.

The time we spend caring about people and loving them could have also been used for manipulating and seducing.

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

Well the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers.

RAM: This gives guys a way of deciding whose computer has the biggest, studliest memory. That's important, because the more memory a computer has, the faster it can produce error messages.

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

I am only able to be honest. And sometimes my view of the world is pretty dark. But still funny.

Readers want more of the same from you. So stick to one genre.

The concept of being a locavore, or one who chooses whenever possible to incorporate locally grown or locally produced food into one's nutrition plan, is of great importance

If your voice is heard by more people because you've earned some kind of name and fame, your silence on an issue of urgent moral importance is even more of a betrayal. Privilege is obligation.