That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.

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.

Besides Mass, Energy, Life, and of course Love, there is one thing constant, and does not change with millennia - and that is ‘Wisdom’.

The cat is a dilettante in fur.

Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.

I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.

I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.

At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.

I'll tell you one thing, I know how to satisfy my wife in bed, yeah, I leave.

Faste knew better than to argue with a doctor, since they were the closest things to God's representatives here on Earth.

And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine