I read Nietzsche when I was a teenager and then I went back to reading him when I was in my thirties, and his voice spoke directly to me. Nietzsche is such a superb literary artist.

I don't make a distinction between men and women. To me they are just people.

If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.

Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.

I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.

Life is tragic but it's equally comic.

To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there.