You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved.

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.

...Every life contains a novel.

I think, in my life and in my experience, teens have stress, and everybody's stress is unique, and everybody's frame of reference is different

I liked, I admit, that we didn’t pretend there hadn’t been other girls. There was always a girl on you in the halls at school, like they came free with a backpack.

And to write is to sow and to reap at the same time.

I feel very protected when I see a movie. That's why I like making violent movies or radical movies.

Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding?

When I was in high school, if my favorite band got too popular, I'd watch carefully.

Modern China; one also finds many things that are really quite admirable.

An awful lot has been written about my temper.

I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans.