To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.

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.

I feel like a tiger right now. There's nothing impossible if you get up and work for it.

Sincerity is the foundation of the spiritual life.

It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them.

Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent;" my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith.

And I can just see that sometimes the technique is blasting powder rather than steady struggle.

The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn't, the story fails.

The Supreme Court has never ruled that the children of illegal aliens are American citizens.

If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.

They that have voice of lions and act of hares,--are they not monsters?

Don't attribute mishaps to a lapse in concentration - if you missed the note you don't know it.