you act out what it feels like to be the one who doesn’t belong. And you act it out by trying to do to others what has been done to you.

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.

That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.

To work properly as A.I.... - I should have doubt... and contradictory in my code....

Now the day has ended, its brief excitements already an imperfect memory.

I don't really write for an album. I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me. It's all a complete accident.

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

We believe trial judges confronted with disruptive, contumacious, stubbornly defiant defendants must be given sufficient discretion to meet the circumstances in each case.

Men who have much to say use the fewest words.

The currency of universal values make brands innately sharable.

My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party.

We must endeavor to have God reign sovereignly in us, and then in others. The trouble with me is that I take more care to have Him reign in others than in myself.