Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

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.

Happiness is a choice. Don’t let the outside world choose it for you.

Life is here to be enjoyed, your smile and your happiness makes it even better".

I miss a good cup of tea, dancing, boys- definitely not rain.""We dance, " Diana protested.Maeve had just laughed. "You dance differently when you know you won't live forever.

As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.

I don't know about them, but I sure am. I'm out for revenge.

The finest defense of character is correct action. Acquaint yourself with virtue, and you can expect proper treatment from those around you.

Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.

A tight-money policy reinforces inequality in two ways. Its high interest rates disproportionately reward the rich, and the resulting unemployment disproportionately punishes the poor.

I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.