A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.

I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.

I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.

Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.

I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.

Money can buy some things to create happiness, but it can never buy happiness.

With something like cancer, there is a feeling that you can fight it in some way or control your response to it, but with dementia there is the fear of losing control of your mind and your life.

We've gone from looking up at the moon to looking down at Instagram.

Amsterdam is not Holland. It is a city that attracts people from all over Holland. And lots of international tourists and party people.

I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone.

I want people to have less me.

I've always enjoyed playing live onstage.

[Walking's] overwhelming advantage is that it can be done by anyone, anytime, anywhere-and it doesn't even look like exercise.

One step at a time is enough for me. Impatience is simply a way of beating yourself up.

The ultimate aim in life should be to fulfill to the utmost all that within our ability and to share that which is good and beautiful.