Traveling alone offers the chance to test the limits of what you think you know about yourself.

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.

Always trust strangers, it's the people you know that let you down.

Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.

'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.

Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp

We do not read to pass the time, but to inhabit time.

Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of compliments, and their passions are fundamentalist.

Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.

The first rule of travel is that you should always go with someone you love, which is why I travel alone.

A new heart for a New Year, always!

Smells, I think, may be the last thing on earth to die.

It's always morning for me until 4 in the afternoon.

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.

Jesus Christ is too important to be left to the theologians.

You only have so much emotional energy each day. Don't fight battles that don't matter.

If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us.

I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment.

In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug," Cassaway said, dryly.

I think a lot of people haven't even seen my videos but just hearing my name are like "Oh, that's that dumb Internet thing." And I'm definitely trying to shake that a little bit.