The poet will not be satisfied with recording, the poet will have to transform.

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.

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

The heart of marriage is memories.

I'm an avid juicer and a healthy eater.

If there is a life after this one, he said, let me meet you in it, James Carstairs.

After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.

I'm not shy. I'm modest, but I'm very outgoing.

Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we've ripened none within us.

Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.

Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.