Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.

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.

Men’s greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women’s greatest strength is their facade of weakness.

I am not a philosopher

Sometimes we must yield control to others and accept our vulnerability so we can be healed.

There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.

The Constitution is what the judges say it is.

In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.

Life's all about making choices. You've made the choice to pick up the pieces and keep going, even when you've been devastated over and over again.

Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. Think about it. People aren't out to get you, they're just stupid.

The failure of political leaders to help uplift the poor will be judged a moral failure.

I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.