I think we are worlds compressed into human form.

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 worst thing that can happen to you today is "nothing" because anything else, either good or bad, can help you learn to live life to the fullest.

All at once it occurs to me that I'm the one who needs to give myself the break, to accept myself for who I am.

The only sin is pride.

The artist like the idiot or clown sits on the edge of the world and a push may send him over it.

I've reached a point in my life where going to the supermarket is a day out.

The longer I live the more I believe that the greatest enemy of a victorious Christian life is passivity.

Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries.

Buddhism - Tibetan Buddhism - teaches us many things, peace comes from within, we must be free ourselves from earthly desires...

My eight-year-old bought a bicycle with the money he saved by not smoking.

The moons of Uranus seem to have got a twist.