The things that I regret in my life are not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.

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.

If your needs are little, you are rich enough.

In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then I feel pretty good sitting on a reggae groove as well.

The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.

The sky is one whole, the water another

Either the distances betweem the distant quarters of the globe are diminished, or you have extended the powers of human action.

When everything around you is crazy, it is ingenious to stay calm.

It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.