How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.

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.

Focus your business on what you do best. Let everyone else worry about the rest.

In the world we live in, you will be warned ironically when you kill yourself, but will be killed literally when you heal yourself

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

It was thy kiss Love that made me immortal.

Christianity is not a legal relationship; it is a love relationship.

In the real world of research, conventional tests of [statistical] significance seem almost worthless.

In the end, what affects your life most deeply are things too simple to talk about.

Look at all our old men in pubs. Look at all our young people on drugs.

Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.

Punctuality is the sole of business.