In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one.

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.

Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

All that you need to be successful and significant in life is in and around you.

I want you to crave the crisp ocean breezeas much as I do.I want your soul to beas rain-swept as mine.

Film is the best way to capture an image and project that image. It just is, hands down.

Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.

The quiet was so deep that their feet seemed to thump along while all the trees leaned over them and listened.

What foolsmiddle-classgirls are to expect other people to respect the same gods as themselves and E M Forster.

It's a defining difference, curiosity. I've never known a stupid person who was curious, or a curious person who was stupid.

You've made your bed, now go bounce on it.

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.