Life is so simple when you're just doing your job.

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 finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

The Maker is very great in mercy.

The ego is a palpable body part in an attorney, perhaps the most prominent body part.

Keeping score of old scores and scars getting even and one-upping always make you less than you are.

This looking down our noses at tea party people has got to stop.

Comedy has traditionally been about fear of embarrassment.

Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old - / These fields and mountains!

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Absolute freedom does not exist; what does exist is the freedom to choose anything you like and then commit yourself to that decision.

'Tis pride that pulls the country down.