Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

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.

Vigorous writing is concise.

Pretty girls kissed me on victory day, their lips soft red petals brushing my face.

That which comes into the world to disturb nothing deserves neither respect nor patience.

The Universe is a friendly place.

I'd bet Sony has some similar stuff up their sleeves they're just playing on the internet outrage for free PR. You're all being played!

Language can be very adept at hiding the truth.

Make hast to an ill way that you may get out of it.

Reason must sit at the knee of instinct and learn reverence for the miraculous instinctual capacity for creation.

Cops must be unleashed, and allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error.

The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.