Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.

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.

Every living cell in your body is made from the food you eat. If you consistently eat junk food then you'll have a junk body.

I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.

What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous.

You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play.

O, wonder!How many goodly creatures are there here!How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.

Every part of the system of Reiki is ultimately about meditation and compassion as keys to healing.

The deeper the sorrow the less tongue hath it.

In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.

If it was up to the studio, everything would be shot with a camcorder.

They're flowing out of Cook into the fringes. People move out of Chicago and into suburban Cook County and now they're losing to the outer suburbs.

A blunt blade is more dangerous than a sharp one

I myself was born in Sacramento, California in 1966.