What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a computer.

All I hear is my own grating thoughts. Is there anything more horrid than being trapped inside yourself with nothing but your own insecurities.

I am lonely here sometimes. I'm like the gate, swinging in the breeze when I long for someone to just secure the latch and stop me from flailing about

Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.

Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness.

Anything that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

Most people haven't got a point of view; they need to have it given to them––and what's more, they expect it from you.

I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it’s just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it’s stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.

We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.

Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.

It's hard being Thom Yorke. You have to get up every morning and look at that face and not shoot at it with a gun.

What is philosophy? It is something that lightens up, that makes bright.