The only selfish life is a timid one.

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.

Life demands more thinking than remembering.

Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.

The harder you work, the luckier you become.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity.

What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion: for yourself and for those around you.

Most of my sermons are inspirational, and I believe people need that encouragement.

I absolute adore epic journeys that require a protagonist to fight for every victory in the hopes of finding triumph.

Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.

And, if you love me, as I think you do, let's kiss and part, for we have much to do