But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.

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.

How you look it is pretty much how you'll see it

Time’s violence rends the soul

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

Harry, just go down to the lake tomorrow, right, stick your head in, yell at the merpeople to give back whatever they’ve nicked, and see if they chuck it out. Best you can do, mate.

In Manhattan, I often do two or three or more shows a night, so I'm always working on new material.

The clothes don’t have to suit you; you have to suit the clothes.

Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.

Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country, the only consolation people can have is the one that comes from their beliefs.

I'm not that interested in someone that one-dimensional, but I'm interested in playing somebody that's more complicated.

There is more magic in sin if it is not committed.