Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.

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 lesson are learnt the hard way, but worthy.

Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?

The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.

[Time was] an accordion, all the air squeezed out of it as you grew old.

What we have in Colombia is a war against the poor and the guerillas from the left side are against the poor.

All the manifestations of love can be seen as a connection with our spirituality.

Let soldiers on manoeuvres plant trees. Give police and criminals a shovel and a thousand seedlings.

I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event.

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

I think I've been called edgy - but in all honestly, there is a safety in what I do because I'm always the idiot.