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.

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.

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

Work is God’s great investment in you

There are no lack of ideas in the Universe… and there is such joy entering into that abundant stream with other connected souls.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.

Decide who you are and what your goals entail - then go for the roses. Life has little regard for those who waste time.

I don't know where I learned elephants like their tongues slapped. Whatever turns you on.

And when a lady's in the case, You know, all other things give place.

Within our lifetime, we can remember a time when Islamism wasn't the dominant form of discourse or the aim should be to minimise the absolutists within any religious community and contain them.

I'm not hugely technical with things, but I guess that the thing I use most is my iPhone, on a practical level.

Try and benefit others, animals, the whole of the earth, as much as you can. And in that space, challenge yourself to find what it is you can bring about through your life's work.