Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.

All through my writing life, I’ve had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

Human beings need stories, and we’re looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it’s television, whether it’s comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I’m obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

I’ve had mixtapes that have been better than albums I’ve heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was ‚Crime and Punishment‘. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days… I said, ‚If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.‘

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

It’s in my blood to be around people while I was training.

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

I can dance to just about anything.

I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest ‚weaknesses‘; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

On ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ I wouldn’t care what I was playing – I would play a corpse, ‚cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Love is only one of many passions.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

I just want to keep writing music.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn’t think I could do anything else. So I read and read and wrote short stories and dreamed of escape.

At the end of the day, who I really and truly am is a little girl who loved to play the piano.

I love football and the intensity of football in Liverpool, this is what is very good for me.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

I started out as a poet. I’ve always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Humans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.