I won't eat what I can't kill. It seems shoddy, hypocritical.

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.

Be organized in maximizing time

Forever, time is standing still. We are flying away with the wings of desire we call life.

I think whenever any guys come along they're intimidated, and they don't really talk that much unless I talk to them.

When summoned hence to thine eternal sleep, Oh, may'st thou smile while all around thee weep.

Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship.

As we step out of the way new things are born.

I think it's pretty common for people to get excited when they meet somebody that they know from the media.

Novels are make-believe and play for adults.

What, in the name of common-sense, had I to do with any better society than I had always lived in?

We women, when we're searching for a meaning to our lives or for the path of knowledge, always identify with one of four classic archetypes.