The most prosaic of us betray a belief in the inward life every time we talk about 'my body' rather than 'I.

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.

We cheated on our math tests, we carved some dirty words on the desk.

One who does not fall, does not stand up.

You ain't gotta go to church to find your God.

Well look, I don't begrudge anybody in the voters and their views.

If somebody gives me a joint, I might smoke it, but I don't go after it.

Men and women are not equal.

[John] McCarthy's regime was ended by Senators who realized that he had gone too far. What we have now may be more insidious.

Some who attempt prayer never have the sense of anyone listening on the other end. They blame themselves for doing it wrong.... Prayer requires the faith to believe that God listens.

Kelly was aware that there is one type of favorable bet available to everyone; the stock market.