Even the most solid of things, and the most real, the best-loved and the well-known, are only hand shadows on the wall. Empty space and points of light.

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.

Love never lives on a one-way street, for it will always come back up the road bigger than how we had sent it down the road.

Who ask don't getwho don't ask don't wantwho don't want don't getwho don't getdon't care

When the line between right and wrong slowly dims, all that’s wrong will be divinely delicious, and ruthlessly fought for!

The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.

There couldn't have been a better Hollywood ending for us. It's beyond baseball. It's rooting for your family.

The Daytona 500 is a big race, and Darlington is just as big of an event, and a lot of people get excited for it.

The central activity of leadership is teaching - first by example, second by precept.

The E.U.-U.S. Open Aviation Area agreement therefore envisages the establishment of a broadly similar cooperation framework between the Commission and the Department of Transportation.

A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.

You take a step, then another. That's the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it's a remaking of your own mind.