Meatspace still has some advantages for a carbon-based girl.

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.

Never ever allow your present predicament to alter your goals in life”.

I enjoy very much communication. I think that scientists need to communicate.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

I think sometimes women are stuck in a type. I've never dated the same type. I fall in love with personalities, and they come in different packages.

Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way

If it's working, keep doing it. If it's not working, stop doing it. If you don't know what to do, don't do anything.

Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother.

The cross is the standing statement of what we do to one another and to ourselves. The resurrection is the standing statement of what God does to us in return.

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.