History is not a suicide note -- it is a record of our survival.

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.

Travel the world until your Facebook's check ins finished...!!!

Call a man 'ignorant, ' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.

Strive to make something of yourself, then strive to make the most of yourself.

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing

We are what we repeatedly do but we can be perceived by what we repeatedly say.

I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures.

...and then a murder mystery will occur.

If there is something you choose to experience in your life, do not "want" it-choose it.