The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something.

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 can assure you that everyone that talks to me doesn't share my views. I seem to be a barometer of public opinion.

Write even when the world is chaotic.

I listen to a wide variety of music of all genres, but sometimes you just need a cheesy pop song.

I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.

All your secret wishes could right now be coming true.

There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.

I usually balance school by doing online classes and regular classes - that has helped me a lot, and I'm able to get my schoolwork done while I'm traveling too.

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

A lot of people dabbling means Buddhism has come into the mainstream, where people begin to use these terms and ideas, and they become less foreign.

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.