There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.

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.

Smart radiation researchers use radiation resistance health techniques in order to offset the known biological harm of their toxic radiation exposures.

Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.

Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.

I have some women friends but I prefer men. Dont trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.

Don't go to summer camp. Bury your parents in the backyard and have the place to yourself.

Integrity is the core of our character.

I view people two ways. They're either eye-for-an-eye people or they are turn-the-cheek people.

I don't want you to leave Which is exactly why I should. But don't worry. I'm essentially a selfish creature. I crave your company too much to do what I should.