There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies

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.

Inside, my soul is curled tightly bearing the burden of massive sins from another life. And my eyes look far at the hell around me... a sharp grin tugs at the corner of my lips.

More than a phone call or likes on facebook - Leadership

I love objectivity when mine.

Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.

Politics is the art of the possible.

A lot of times if you go to counseling you find out the thing we think are big issues to our partner is not near as big as we think it is.

The life and fellowship of the church is to be a foretaste of life in the Kingdom of God.

Let those be thy choicest companions who have made Christ their chief companion.

you're never more alive than when you're almost dead.

Let us resolve the internal political problems of Russia ourselves