You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear?

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.

Don't follow the crowd until you are sure you want to be where they're going.

To spend time observing, without drawing, thinking, without drawing, or feeling, without drawing, is the misfortune of nonartists.

One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

There was that half-smirk again, playing around his lips, as if he was deciding whether the situation was amusing enough to warrant a full smile.

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part.

Money, amazingly, is losing its power... Our economy is rapidly changing from a money economy to a satisfaction economy.

I do think we need heroes. It gives people hope and an example to follow.

The thing that kills startups at some level, is the founders giving up.

People who are not willing to respect not only the given law, but our democratic way of life, should not live in Europe.