Often when she liked a picture she found that she was liking some part of herself, some part of her that was in accord with the picture

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.

People always fear what they don't understand, Evangeline. History proves that.

In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery

If you haven't heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one.

When completed, Disney's California Adventure will feel more immersive and richer. It will have more heart.

Today much of anti-biofuel "science" - including the false claim that biofuels need more energy to make than they contain - has been shown to be complete hogwash, bought and paid for by big oil.

When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells.

You have a winner and a loser and that doesn't bother me, I am man enough to accept that.

Without vision a people perishes.

The name of the game is efficiency; we have to play that game with our toys and our brains.

Don't take life so serious. It ain't no-hows permanent.