Birth is a shipwreck, the mewling infant shored on unknown land.

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.

How do you know when you're God?" "When I pray to him I find I am talking to myself.

Neither can you explain yourself to me. Nor can I explain myself to you. You have your sadness and I have mine.

Stop what you are doing. Go outside and breathe. The world will not end if you take ten minutes for yourself.

I was always a killer. It was my skill, and they’d taught me well. She taught me love.

The more underdeveloped the country the more overdeveloped the women.

I don't like to know too much because I'm a terrible liar.

For nighttime or for an event, I'm all about the nice heel. Something that's still walkable but definitely very elegant.

I am one of those actors who does feel a change when a wig and fake nose are put on. Even the weird little things, like glasses - it's almost like having a mask on.

You have to be ready to give everything you have, and you have to make sure you've really got a lot to give. Because if ... you're not ready to give everything you have, ... then you're nothin'.

When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested.