If I let them take away my demons, I'll have to give up what I've found.

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.

You may wonder how I managed to make these friends. Well, I will tell you. Making friends is actually not that hard when you drop every single one of your standards.

There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.

At this moment, I saw more clearly than ever the brutalizing effects of slavery upon the slave and slaveholder.

From the moment we walk out the door until we come back home our sensibilities are so assaulted by the world that we have to soak up as much love as we can get simply to arm ourselves.

I hope you have not been leading a double life pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation.

It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer.

I used to be sure of things. Me, once i had all the answers. I wish i was a kid again, when i had all the answers