Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.

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.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

To live in that place where both sides could at any moment turn on you? It leaves you in a very traumatic spot.

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowhere.

In one generation, my family went from extermination simply because of how they pray to God to this ridiculously privileged life I live today. So how can I not love America?

I dress women the way I see them and the way I envision them from day one, thus my customer knows that what she is looking for she will get.

Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.

Grace cannot wipe out the law of sewing and reaping.

Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so; their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.

Sometimes you go against what they say because you believe in it anyway.