People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.

The path of your life can change in an instant.

A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.

She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time

I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.

Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.

Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you'll keep faith in me, you'll remember who we are, and you'll never feel despair.

You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It's you who makes me a person.

But it was smell that carried memory.

How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?

Even exciting places are boring most of the time. Wars. Movie sets. Emergency rooms.

You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope and be free.

We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.

Often I have encountered in life that great disappointments have proved to be the road to future successes.

And by the way it's not about making money, it's about taking money. Destroying the status quo because the status is not quo. The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm passionate about and that I think is profoundly important.

The only redemptive feature of war is the brotherhood which it forges.

I'm intrigued with figuring out the places [where] the horrible and the beautiful meet - that aesthetic fascinates me.

To love is to tilt with the lightning, two bodies routed by a single honey's sweet.

Except for our bodies there are no other temples in the world

To create the protection for the corporations, government is actually growing bigger than ever before, in every part of the world. Yet it’s growing extremely thin as a protector of people.