To love life for some men is to love fighting, for fighting, and not love, is seen as man's deepest passion.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Oh shit, the mummy's after us, let's all walk a little faster

They are trying to take you back from me now, and they will—but only for a brief, little while—

Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.

Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.

Offering a hand up is not a hand-out.

It is nice to travel the world and sell records and meet fans and that is so much fun. But I want to always remember that music can heal and it can make someone's day.

When they so-called 'target the interest rate', what they're doing is controlling the money supply via the interest rate. The interest rate is only an intermediary instrument.

Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses.

The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable.

That's the one thing I have over any twenty-one-year-old: a proud history of accumulated neuroses. That's the game in which I'm da man.