I hate that Alex [James] and Damon [Albarn]. I hope they catch AIDS and die.
A religion without mystics is a philosophy.
A liar ought to have a good memory.
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
Standing in a two-hour line makes people worry that they're not living in a democratic nation. People stand in line for two houres and they go over the edge.
To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content.
I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place.
Constant talkers are unheard.