Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

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.

Secrets are gold and we are the miners.

The essence of prayer even of a mystical experience is the way we are altered to see everything from its life-filled dimension.

I'm also the first straight woman to host this in 20 years, so, we finally made it, straight people.

If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait.

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

Reading functions as hallucinating a meaning between letters and lines.

I don't want to sell other people trips! I want to be there!

All of humanity is searching for truth, justice, and beauty.

Boredom is the beginning of all destruction and everything that is negative.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.