Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth.

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.

A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.

Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time.

These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none of the responsibilities.

Hell was a living place inside every membrane of flesh that temporarily passed itself off as human.

My only goal is to make the crew laugh, basically. It's the only litmus I have to know, is this good or not?

When you feel stuck and can't seem to move ahead, always remember that you don't have to get it right, you just have to get it going!

I think that, in Hebrew, it's like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story.

I think imperfections are important, just as mistakes are important. You only get to be good by making mistakes, and you only get to be real by being imperfect.

Im one step ahead of my past, two steps behind my dream.

Tradition - one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking.