People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.

Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.

I sandpapered the roof of my mouth with 3 bowls of Cap'n Crunch - had raw gobbets of mouth-beef dangling onto my tongue all day

It's not healthy to live life as a succession of isolated little cool moments.

Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be Steve McQueen, but the world wants you to be SMcQ23667bot@hotmail.com.

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.