“Plenty of people are good-looking. That doesn't make them interesting or intriguing or cool.”

Original: I pregi e le qualità possono renderci interessanti, affascinanti e intriganti, ma saranno sempre i difetti a renderci unici.
Source: prevale.net

Page 186
Faith and Politics (2006)

Source: From Russia With Love

Interview with Simple Plan’s Sebastien Lefebvre https://www.seymourduncan.com/blog/latest-updates/interview-with-simple-plans-sebastien-lefebvre

On what he likes most about the guitar, as quoted by Metal Edge (April 1994).

Source: Commonplace Book (1985), p. 224
Context: Going to Bits. This phrase me to day and is indeed the one I have been looking for; not tragic, not mortal disintegration; only a central weakness which prevents me from concentrating or settling down I have so wanted to write and write ahead. The phrase "obligatory creation" has haunted me. I have so wanted to get out of my morning bath promptly: have decided to do so beforehand, and have then lain in it as usual and watched myself not getting out. It looks as if there is a physical as well as a moral break in the orders I send out. I have plenty of interesting thoughts but keep losing them like the post cards I have written, or like my cap. I can't clear anything up yet interrupt a 'good read' in order to clear up. I hope tomorrow to copy out a piece of someone else's pose: it is the best device known to me for taking one out of inself, Plunge into anothers minutiae.' 31-1-61

Source: The Bell Jar

Letter to V.A. Posse (February 15, 1900)
Letters

Source: Darwin, God and the Meaning of Life: How Evolutionary Theory Undermines Everything You Think You Know (2010), p. 290