We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.

Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.

Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.

The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.

A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.

All confessions are Odysseys.

I hear my silence talked of in every lane

I hope that I capture something in my work that is about the elusive, the magical and powerful and the transformative. The writing in itself is transformative for me.

The dragons live in the casino?Tee's eyes widened and alarm coursed through her.My God, it's like the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

I have 20, 000 girlfriends, all around the world.

Now all orators effect their demonstrative proofs by allegation either of enthymems or examples, and, besides these, in no other way whatever.

I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work.

I've reached a place with my work where I'm ready to concentrate more on life.

You know it's time to start using mouthwash when your dentist leaves the room and sends in a canary.

My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.

Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.