As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.

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.

I can't say I know at this moment what all these laws are. But on some level everybody knows that we are all getting exactly what we deserve.

Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

Mr. Market's job is to provide you with prices; your job is to decide whether it is to your advantage to act on them. You no not have to trade with hime just because he constantly begs you to.

The trumpet is a very violent instrument - probably one of the most archaic of all the modern instruments. It's physically really demanding: you have to stay in pretty good shape.

I love finding EPs for bands that you just discover.

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

Christians are driven by God's promises, and directed by God's purposes.

It's gonna take the man in me to conquer this insanity.

Our life must have an aim, but we must also ensure that the direction we take is a good one.