“Some people were just getting on with their lives, chatting, being young. It simply wouldn't do.”

“Being famous is like a little bit of you is taken away and goes off and lives on its own and does what it wants... I wish it would do more interesting things!”

“I hope it is not necessary for me to stress the platonic nature of our relationship- not platonic in the purest sense, there was no philosophical discourse, but we certainly didn't fuck, which is usually what people mean by platonic; which I bet would really piss Plato off, that for all his thinking and chatting his name has become an adjective for describing sexless trysts.”

“The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.”

“People don't realize that the future is just now, but later.”

“I know that's the sort of thing people say and I really hate it when people say the sort of things people say. I always think, 'You don't mean that, you just think it sounds good.”

“My life is just a series of embarrassing incidents strung together by telling people about those embarrassing incidents.”