The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind.

I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.

Literature is analysis after the event.

Listen Anna, if we don’t believe the things we put on our agendas will come true for us, then there’s no hope for us. We’re going to be saved by what we seriously put on our agendas.

As I was saying, that’s the dark secret of our time, no one mentions it, but every time one opens a door one is greeted by a shrill, desperate and inaudible scream.

Sometimes I think the one form of experience people are incapable of learning from is the political experience.

Yes, cannibals. People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.

Reading is a source of liberation. Children who are taught to read early on, are commonly taught to communicate in other significant verbal and nonverbal ways.

I wanted to be curious and smart and unappeasable until I got a sentence to mean exactly what I ordered it to mean.

The tiny match we've been fooling with just set off an explosion.

I have a weird thing - if I can't see where all the walls in my house are, I get a little bit freaked out. I think New York has Stockholm Syndrome'd my sense of space and what a house should be.

If you're going to America, bring your own food.

I've always wanted to be a giant space crab.

Once you get it into your head that somebody is controlling events, you can interpret everything in that light and find no reasonable certainty anywhere.

They tell us that plants are not like man immortal, but are perishable-soul -less. I think that is something that we know exactly nothing about.

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.