To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.

We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.

Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.

When words lose their meaning and expression, silence is the only language that heart follows, speaks and celebrates.

Now that I think I know what I'm doing, I'm scared. Before this, I just didn't know any better.

Most of the people will try to prove your right ideas as wrong, so share your ideas carefully or not at all.

Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries.

I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come up to me with ideas, because normally in the studio it's me who has to come up with all the ideas.

Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.

When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved

I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.

Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.