I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact.

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.

The well of knowledge will never run dryAs long as you have the wisdom to seek and the courage to try

Compassion: a robust dance between grace and wisdom.

I never have lunch because it makes me foggy-headed.

Until women assume their rightful place on earth there will never be an end to wars, cruelty and oppression.

The more syllables a euphemism has, the further divorced from reality it is.

One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.

If you can create an environment where people are invited to do their best work and the best ideas always win, then the project itself will win.

Our culture says Status is more important than Wealth, but we teach the opposite.

I guess, yeah. I've always loved improv. It's my thing. I really like it, but I also think it has to be done well.

Everything is made of one hidden stuff.