What you think is the heart might well be another organ.

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.

The most important progress and success can't be seen. If you can validate yourself internally, then external validation becomes a byproduct.

It’s important to know that you're behind, to be able to convince yourself to make sacrifices that get you ahead.

So long as they speak your name, you shall never die.

If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.

All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost.

The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them.

Everybody dies, but great souls ressurects in our memories.

The smallest errors are always the best.

I walked around for a while angry, in a bad mood. ... 'Woe is me.' I've gotten over that. It doesn't do any good.

The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.