I believe with an extreme story the closer you look the more horrifying it gets.

I do believe that everything can look beautiful if you look at it from outside. The closer you zoom in, most of us exhibit behaviour that is strange to someone from outside.

There's not really genres as storytelling in Austria, unfortunately.

I had to find a way to speak without ever saying the 'you' plural.

I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.

While hitting one must guard ... In order to hit with effect, the enemy must be taken off his guard.

Your body's always going through changes. It's fattening or thinning or wrinkling or blotching, and the only thing you really have control over is putting some decoration on it.

The World is full of wonders, but they become more Wonderful, not less Wonderful when Science looks at them.

The level of dishonesty is out of control.

Why in the case of the ear, is there withdrawal and turning inward, a making resonant, but in the case of the eye, there is manifestation and display, a making evident?

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

Joys come from simple and natural things: mists over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water.

To be creative, an idea must also be appropriate—useful and actionable.

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.