When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

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.

He rocked her against him. "No idea what I'm going to do with you." She didn't know what he was going to do with her either, but she hoped it was good.

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

Keep your attention internal, not external, not worrying about what others see, but what the Self sees.

Intuition is more than knowledge, and truth comes pure from the heart.

I think my work is very difficult to understand. Sometimes people do and sometimes they don't. I can't do much about that.

Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.

Enlightening editorial writers is even more difficult than educating educators.

When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to problems, we are in need of another vision.

Too many people focus on the thing, instead of the heavenly glory of it. I don't want to give away what to expect.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.