We are what we are. If you are different, it's because you are special. Don't let anyone tell you differently.

shall we dance into the perpetual torture of our union once more?

If you can't change your fate change your attitude.

I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.

I wrote a whole novel before The Beach. Unpublishable. Junk. But, for some reason I stuck at novels and wrote a second. Still not sure why I didn't give up. Stubborn, maybe.

I think there's a part of us that fantasizes about having some sort of super power. If I could have one, it would definitely be teleportation!

A political place with no power, only influence, is not to my taste.

Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.

The Eurovision Song Contest is by definition apolitical - unless your song criticises Russia, of course.

I hate being immobile.