I believe in communication books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

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.

Knowing when to be silent makes you seem wiser beyond your years.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.

If you can't go where people are happier, try to make people happier where you are.

I've always said I prefer theater, but there's only ever been one play that I really loved doing, and that was The Seagull.

I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation.

Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association.

The essence of Bhagavad Gita is that we should always think of Krsna, become His devotee, worship him and offer homage unto him.

Presidential candidates don't chew gum.

When I started on 'Saturday Night Live,' I had the choice of wearing contact lenses, which I had never worn before, or glasses, in order to be able to read the cue cards.