"I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream."

"I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity."

"I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars."

"The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority."

"To speak the truth in a season of deceit is an act of supreme bravery. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either."

"It is a timeless truth that all philosophical inquiry begins with the humility to admit the limits of knowing."

"You've got to demand the truth from yourself."