Deep within every blind, absolute love grows a hatred toward the beloved, who now holds the only existing key to happiness

We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.

On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations.

A child who is born is something to seek out, something to search for, a star, a northern light, a column of energy in the universe. And a child who dies-that's an abomination.

With age I have voluntarily chosen certain limitations. I don't have the energy to start over again. To learn new skills or fight my own personality or figure out diesel engines.

To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.

I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also helpless in two or three other languages.

Whining is a virus, a lethal, infectious, epidemic disease.

Every theoretical explanation is a reduction of intuition.

Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.

Embrace your diverse, prismatic colors! They make you uniquely you!

DOING is often God's remedy for despair.

Some people survived the neolithic age by being brave, others by being cowardly and smart.

Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?

While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters.

I’ll tell you the secret to good teaching: make possible an experience without predetermining what that experience will be.

You can't take no Chinese man and give him no Puerto Rican woman and talking like they're in love and emotionally in love and physically.

When you are single mom - don't be afraid to get out there and date, and have a little bit of fun. We're still women... we're still feminine... and we still have needs.

Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control

The thing about lying is, it is quite exhausting - you have to remember a lot.