If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.

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.

I have been able to help my friends and people that I believe in pay their bills and stay afloat in L.A. while following their dreams.

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

But then, after all, we are all alike, for we are all derived from the monkey.

My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good.

Time to write and sing, to laugh, to listen, to discover, to cry, to love music.

My musical sensibilities were formed around punk rock, that quintessential dilution of an art that's both ugly and lovely at the same time.

The paired butterflies are already yellow with August Over the grass in the West garden; They hurt me. I grow older.

I'm weird; I have a very strange emotional memory. I really somehow hold on to even passing moments with people.

The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything

So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.