I never cared about money.

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.

creativity is our only weapon against entropy

Lily Tomlin was one of the early comedy greats who influenced my courage to be the person I am.

I would love to write a mystery - a romantic, funny mystery.

I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.

It's a cliché, but also a deep truth (as cliché's tend to be), that you can't love another person very well if you don't love yourself.

Enduring to the end requires total commitment to the Savior and to our covenants.

I would love a bowl of Frosties, but I start the day with something healthier like a bowl of yoghurt or berries.

I found my happy place the minute I saw you

Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.

All attention is introspection.