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.

Still though, I think if you're not self-obsessed, you're probably boring.

Lonely was much better than alone.

Do not ask, "Is is possible?" rather, "Is is worth what it will require of me to make it happen?

First her body goes missing, then her finger.

Some people were nice to you simply because they liked you.

I can write anywhere.

I won't go to a restaurant to eat with friends, always join them afterwards for coffee. In company I always get over enthusiastic, and this leads to indigestion.

Don't come on to be funny - come on to solve problems.

I want to live in a city where the police don't shoot you.

Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.

All cats love a cushioned couch.