Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.

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.

Any point of view reflects some side of truth and must not claim that it is complete

I desire therefore I exist.

I think I'll stay alive here a bit longer, and see with my own eyes what's going to happen. I can still die after that - it won't be too late. Probably.

I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely.

For the record, I hate skiing... and if you get killed doing it, GOOD.

The best design explicitly acknowledges that you cannot disconnect the form from the material - the material informs the form.

What are you using?" I asked. "Fascination or glamour?" "Both," she said, giving me a wicked smile

Who is the bad guy? Is America possibly the bad guy?

God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.

We trust people we can count on. We count on people who do what they say they will do when they say they will do it.