When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made.

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.

In the fall, she knew it was Death who sweetened the apples.

Contentment is not a power that may be exercised naturally, but a science to be acquired gradually.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back."-Plato

I'd love to do my own music for sure. I'd love to have a band.

Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.

When I write I find a quiet place.

Under the storms, sun becomes a god!

The proper school to learn art is not life but art

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do.