Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination.

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.

Life is not about receiving. It's about giving, knowing that someone might learn, understand or grow that little bit from the experience.

When we have the Holy Spirit we have all that is needed to be all that God desires us to be.

That's really what ultimately matters - the emotions and feelings that you experienced and people around [whom] you experienced [them].

Industries are fearful of legislation. But if you start in the marketplace and forge a solution, you get a lot less resistance - and often a more flexible approach.

It is beautiful, the world, and life itself. I am glad I have lived.

Seek to share joy with others, or to make somebody else happy, and you will find your own soul radiant with the joy you wished for another.

If you don't feel free and be yourself, you can't connect. Find people who accept your quirks. They'll heal your soul.

I'm not talking about autarky. I'm not crazy. We need an intelligent protectionism.

I'm glad the universe is pointless. It means if I get to the end of my life, the universe can't turn to me and go, 'What have you been doing, you idiot? That's not the point!

Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life. The Doctor: Believe me... It was an accident.