Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury

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.

The way to be nothing is to do nothing

Make it simple, but significant.

Very good laws may be ill timed.

Hostility to youth is the worst vice of the middle-aged.

I feel like if you can describe something fully and accurately, then people will be able to see it themselves - they don't need be told what to.

I've been waiting for you forever." "Forever' as in several hundred years, or forever as in since my lesson began?

We've learned more from the newspapers sometimes than we do from our open hearings, for sure.

The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

The greedy one gathered all the cherries, while the simple one tasted all the cherries in one.

Leaders are never appreciated or needed until you don't have them.