I'm very interested in how idealistic young people can get caught up in all sorts of systems of extreme belief, you know, whether it's cults or whether it's suicide bombers.

...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.

There's not a thing wrong with you, you're right the whole way through.

I hate desks; they make me feel like a child doing homework.

Everyone's got a different story.

Sometimes, I think there's a lack of ambition in me. But then sometimes, I think, no, you can, like William Blake said, you know, see heaven in a grain of sand. If you look really, really closely at a situation, you can find almost endless interest in it.

I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.