Life was a pre-death experience.

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.

Challenges are part of life. We only need grace to endure.

North Korea remains the last bastion of undiluted communism in the world.

I grew up a Saints fan, an hour from the Superdome.

Hillary Clinton has no instinct.

With monochrome painting... the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape.

When the good man yields his breath (For the good man never dies).

The resurrection was God the Father's way of authenticating all of the truths that were declared by Jesus.

But monsters, I now know, come in all shapes and sizes, and only their appetite for human flesh defines them.

In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.

If you have something important to say, Broadway and New York are great places to say it.