I didn't think anyone who had to demand respect ever got it.

Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.

The universe doesn't really care if you bounce back. It doesn't feel that weird to write about paralysis or being in hospital or losing a child or, you know, splitting up with your wife, because that's just life.

...I thought how I hate any kind of mob - I hate mobs of sports fans, mobs of environmental demonstrators, I even hate mobs of super-models, that's how much I hate mobs. I tell you, mankind is bearable only when you get him on his own.

There's nothing perplexing to me about a leafy shrub evolving out of the big bang, but that the post office exists because carbon exploded out of a supernova is a phenomenon so outrageous it makes my head twitch.

We were on our way to the twentieth floor, sharing the elevator with two suits that had men inside them.

I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.