I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first.

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.

The best relationships are simple. No lies, no cheating, simply two people that will always be there for each other nomatter what.

I wanted to punch him and understand him at the same time.

The telling of stories creates the real world.

We've said to the Iranians all along . . . we still remain open to diplomacy. But it's been very clear that the Iranians don't want to engage with us.

I think that instead of feminism being a political thing, it should be an act of creativity. It's more of a rock n' roll thing.

Onstage I have a natural chutzpa that audiences like. I'm out there.

Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.

Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists

For in this strange anatomy we wear, the head has greater powers than the hand; the spirit, heart, and mind are over all.

Everything shows me its face, its innermost being, its secret soul, which is more often silent than heard.