To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.

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.

If history repeats itself, I am so getting a dinosaur!

Neither the life of anarchy nor the life enslaved by tyrants, no, worship neither. Strike the balance all in all and god will give you power.

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

An unhappy life is a life not lived.

General Boykin has requested that an inspector general review this matter. And I have indicated that if that's his request, I think it's appropriate.

I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.

Everybody learns from traveling. I think we all do.

If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.

Once I'm awake, I'm awake, which helps when you have to run in the mornings.