Once you start recognizing your own obsessions, you know you’re getting old.

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.

Dakota started laughing. "You wouldn't have anything back there to help me tame a punk-rock wild child with a disdain for cowboys, would you?

Anything, anything to stop drowning in this dull, trivial and cowardly existence.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.

I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

I always wanted to make people feel something.

I think we are starting to get some information that will allow us to get to the bottom of this, and I hope we continue to work on this until we get to the bottom of it.

I think it's rather a waste of time endlessly singing the same songs every night for a year, and it's just not what I want to do.

Expensive clothes with inappropriate or inexpensive shoes may send an unflattering message.

I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.