“If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.”

I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you’re yet to be.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

I was always a lonely person when I was with everyone.

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it’s not much use.

Religion is the opium of the poor.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Develop a built-in bullshit detector.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

Where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.

There are worse places to be than on your own.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

I feel very comfortable with the U.K. tone and humour and laid-back attitude.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.

I’m always trying to be nice to my fans, but sometimes it’s hard because you’re human, and sometimes you have a bad day. Like if you’re getting into your car and you don’t say hi, all of a sudden you’re so mean. There is a balance, for sure.

It’s a dirty job being ridiculous, but I’ll do it.

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.

I’m the only fire that can live in the rain.