It’s a rule that we never listen to sad music, we made that rule early on, songs are as sad as the listener, we hardly ever listen to music.

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

I ran rather than walked, anxious to lose my way. All I wanted was to be unsure.

I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I'd be there with you now instead of here. Maybe... if I'd said, 'I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,' maybe that would have made the impossible possible. Maybe, but I couldn't do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me. And here I am, instead of there.

The end of the world has come often, and continues to come.

I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.