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.

Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.

We hope you have found challenge in your path this morning.” -- Laniel, Abbot of Bilkar the Furred

I do have a girl that sets the moon and stars.

I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.

Accounts are not quite settled between us," said she, with a passion that equaled my own. "I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose to spurn the first; now you must test the other.

I think, as you get older, that's when your ambitions become "peculiar".

Issac Stern rule: the better your technique, the more impossible your standards.

The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.