Trust me, I'm telling you stories.

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.

Science is beautiful because of its endless curiosity.

The human mind is an endless vast of miraculous wonders.

Just about ANY personality trait or skill can be learned: simply find it in someone you know and copy it. Then watch what happens.

We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling.

The hardest decision of the day is always the first decision you must make. It's the choice you make to TRY.

Hereditary boundsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?

A sense of humor is needed armor.

When we get jealous, we tell stories to ourselves about other people. Jealousy makes you look for intensity rather than accuracy.

Fossils are of four kinds, viz. saline, earthy, inflammable and metallic; hence arise four classes.

He who laughs last, laughs best.