If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going.

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.

When you make things too easy on someone, you’re giving them a discount on your worth.

Saying a prayer won't make you a Christian. Placing your faith in Christ as your savior makes you a Christian.

A man had to learn, it was his nature.

Ask any human being alive if they're the same person they were seven years ago and they're going to tell you they aren't.

Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe.

I can still tend the rabbits, George? I didn't mean no harm, George.

We have not created any sort of democratic test for any nation.

Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking-glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face.

Every set up that you do, everything is precisely modulated and raised and lowered.”

Fortunately, we don't need to know how bad an age is. There is something we can always be doing without reference to how good or bad the age is.