I have no idea what happens next.

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.

Another distraction that deviates people from their God given purpose and calling is the distraction of job and formal education.

There is nothing that works out for the worst that won't work out for the better.

The Universe said, ‘Let me show your soul something beautiful.

Every journey taken always includes the path not taken, the detour through hell, the crossroads of indecision and the long way home.

I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.

I never had a chance to learn how to drive.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby.

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life.

I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy.

As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power.