I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.

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.

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

That we can be e pluribus Unum - out of one, many

There is no gratitude for things past. Gratitude is always for what you're going to do for people in the future.

The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself.

The attention of the media is only caught by acts of violence... so I must perform this act of violence against myself.

I really do believe that much of what coming out of Donald Trump's mouth was a play from Vladimir Putin's playbook.

This is another kind of competition, but I'm being coached by an excellent team, and I've got a real strong competitive spirit.

I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremost we're part of the global economy.

In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration.