Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.

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.

Stay unknown until you know what you want to be known for.#StokesNotes

I'm pretty happy for someone who struggles with happiness.

The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present.

No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.

After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream, and I've cut right back on alcohol.

Who says God has created this world? We have created it by our own imagination.

Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found.

I want to be known as a solid all-around receiver thats fast, not a fast guy that plays receiver.

God does everything through people who understand they're nothing. And God does nothing through those who think they're everything.

If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.