To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way.

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.

Doing the tough things sets winners apart from losers.

Leverage your pain into strength and every heartbreak into joy.

Let's all start wearing bolo ties, and when they become hip again, we'll all say we were kidding.

Style is doing things not in any way but in the best way.

The first step toward liberation of any group is to use the power in hand... And the power in hand is the vote.

It seems a fine line between being a matador and being a rodeo clown

I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after!

If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents.

I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am President the less of a party man I seem to become.

The Flaming Lips have been on Warner Bros. forever, and certainly everything I heard growing up was on a major label in some way, from the Cure to Radiohead to Bjork.