I think that a lot of people on the left are gonna get tired of fighting gun laws, so they're gonna embrace gun culture. I think when that happens, you've got serious, serious trouble.

Conservatives are giving up on democracy because it's not efficient. They want an autocratic regime.

People are really excited by Obama abroad because he seems to be the first American presidential candidate who has ambition to go out of the country. In a sense, with the power of globalization, you are kind of electing the leader of the Western world to an extent.

Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as I struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life

don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another

Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.

I think [Ecstasy] was a really good stab. It wasn't my strongest book or my strongest material, but they wanted to make a kinda "rave culture" movie.