Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.

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.

The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

A lot of you want me to hurry through the introduction. That's because you're so much older you don't want to waste a minute of your life.

I believe I do my job the way I have to do it.

You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.

Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.

Nonviolence succeeds only when we have a real living faith in God.

If you're wondering if you're dreaming, you're dreaming.

There are few punishments too severe for a popular novel writer.

Don't write it right, just write it, and then make it right later.

Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.