If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it.

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.

Summer night--even the starsare whispering to each other.

Careful with your life.

Yes, your home is your castle, but it is also your identity and your possibility to be open to others.

Nobody has time to keep trying on a load of things in the morning like a teenager.

There is nothing better on a cold wintry day than a properly made pot pie.

Theology has not advanced an inch in the last 1,000 years. How much respect does a profession deserve if it cannot add to the knowledge and understanding of man?

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams of the beautiful Annabel Lee

We don't have a "consciousness meter" that'll tell us exactly how conscious something is. I think we might get there eventually.

Great pressure is put on kids who don't have dads to get out and make money, and make life easier for everybody. It was always, 'Hurry up, grow up, make money, there's no man to do it for us.'

It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.