"The Kiril Islands had changed hands more times than a good coin in a whorehouse."

“I like vocal word stuff. But I don't always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It's more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It's closest to the choreography of a bee. You're freer.”

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”

“I find that things don't bother me as much. If I had a bad day on set, it sort of just rolls of my back in a way that it didn't before. So that's where the biggest difference is, stuff that used to get under my skin or that I would worry about or be anxious about just isn't a problem. So in some ways, having a child has been very liberating. I found it very liberating.”

“I write when I have something to say and not when I don't. My time is better spent if I know I have nothing to say. I don't consider it writer's block; I just don't have anything to say.”

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“We have an idea - a very modern idea - that dying is undignified. But I think this is because we have the illusion that we can control our bodies and our fates.”

“I had to try to figure out what it would be like to do things for the first time, almost as if you're a child.”

“Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.”

“Say something worthwhile and people will listen.”

Source : Germany Kent (2015). “You Are What You Tweet: Harness the Power of Twitter to Create a Happier, Healthier Life”, p.131, Star Stone Press, LLC