Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not.

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.

Always we learn things and then we forget them.

Only through Absolution will you reach the Absolute.

When you’re in another country, remember to do as the locals do, since it is your ways that may seem strange of offensive to them.

If you always make the right decision, the safe decision, the one most people make, you will be the same as everyone else.

Thank God, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.

Americans do not turn away from duties because they are hard.

You're the drug that works.

We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.

Acting is way of making yourself exist.

It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.