When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

Regarding marriage, it – somehow, it didn’t happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

Get mad, then get over it.

If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.

I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

Things won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.

My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Intimates are predestined.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

Men want to make women happy.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

Be as you wish to seem.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

I got my own back.

I can never say ‚why‘ about anything I do. I suppose I can say ‚how‘ and ‚when‘ and ‚what.‘ But ‚why‘ is impenetrable to me.

My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‚But how can it be like that?‘ because you will get ‚down the drain,‘ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

I’ve had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it’s not what I look for when I’m seeing someone.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

I think that I’m perfect.

Then, when I’m in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it’s all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

The Bible is clear – God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.