Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.

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 have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of … Nothing is left but to love.

Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves or you will never find it.

If you have two coats, one of them belongs to the poor.

[In my bio] is no drunk driving, there's no DUI's, there's no possession of cocaine, none of that stuff so you know, I don't know if that's good or bad. Everybody loves dirty laundry.

For some reason I seem to be a massive hit with middle-aged women. I seriously don't know what it is.

My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else.

Theory-free science makes about as much sense as value-free politics.

It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else is living what's the point?

Your heart is sacred land. Don't let just anything enter it. Guard it with your life.