I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.

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.

Maybe not, maybe not. Cheer up, Becky, and let's go on trying.

The next day was wonderful...and terrible. So, overall, I guess it was okay.

You can imprison a man but not an idea. You can exile a man but not an idea. You can kill a man but not an idea.

Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.

We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?

We change for the good so long as good exists around us.

Being in the ring became my reality, and, in my reality, I'd think I was someone special.

I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate.

Certainly, my friends and the common narrative is people are trying to shore up their own lives with regards to family planning and reproduction.