What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home.

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.

It was in the words he didn't say... that I found all the answers to my questions.

Our sainted aunts prate of living for others while our rich uncles call us mollycoddles for not fighting for what we want. Murder is a patriotic act if you commit it in a uniform

The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us.

Congress doesn't regulate Wall Street. Wall Street regulates Congress.

We all must do what Christ did. We must make our experiment. We must make mistakes. We must live out our own version of life. And there will be error. If you avoid error you do not live.

Any work you do, do it the best you can and achieve the maximum result.

But things don't necessarily have to be that expensive to be good. As long as they are expensive enough to last.

I like the way you hustle man.

The squirrels on campus were beyond domestic; they were practically domestically abusive.

Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.