“The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives we will see that most of the time we do things just to please others … The worst part is that most of us are not even aware that we are not free.”

Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that’s why we should change it. I didn’t say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.

It’s very important to stretch, because while it’s good to look pumped

Doug stiffened. Jay sounded crazy. Doug tried looking extra sane to even things out.

I was stuck with looking like a girl. As soon as I got out of music it was straight off to the hairdressers.

I was looking for something and I wasn’t sure what it was. [After experimenting with] certain funguses,

The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.

But beware, dear reader. For we go out into the wide, wild world, looking to change, looking to grow, looking for wisdom. But wisdom is hard to come by, and once achieved, it is very easily lost.

I don’t like to look typical.

I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are.