A jealous husband is an ugly thing.

Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn't get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that's okay.

The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.

Deep down, everyone wants the truth.

What was it about not knowing a person that allowed you to wonder whether she might be the answer to all your problems?

The irrational thoughts were the ones with the power to burn holes in your gut.

The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who.

What about my rights? What about a person's privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?

Nothing overdone, nothing racy, which made her all the more alluring.

Stop making excuses and start doing what makes you profoundly happy!

You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does

Then, by your definition... I'm in love with you.

Motherhood has taught me the meaning of living in the moment and being at peace. Children don't think about yesterday, and they don't think about tomorrow. They just exist in the moment.

The amount of scientific information we've discovered in the last twenty years is more than all the discoveries up to that point, from the beginning of language.

Trees are massacred, houses go up — faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth.

It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?

I personally am not interested in people trying to pigeonhole me.

You get an image in the first couple of years of your career, and then whether you like it or not, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life.

I think music should be judged on what it is. It should be very high and above everything else. It is a beautiful way of bringing people together, a little bit of an oasis in this messed-up world.