A know a place called New Beginnings, but I don't think it works quite like that. You can't just erase everything that came before.

That's how you know you really trust someone, I think; when you don't have to talk all the time to make sure they still like you or prove that you have interesting stuff to say.

When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.

The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.

Try a little tenderness.

I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.

It makes me think of Lazarus. He must have had those shadows after his miracle. You don't spend time in the tomb without it changing you, and everyone who was waiting for you to come out.

I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude.

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.

Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

I think that the reason for my success is that I am really not aspirational. I am inspirational in that the people at home feel like they can really relate to me.

I've been gone for a long time. I really want to give the fans something that they deserve to have. So, I'm working really hard on this. I really want to make it the best work I've done so far.

Britain, and my hometown, will always be with me wherever I go and whatever I do - but I prefer to live in California.

The most important quality any piece of writing can have is doneness.

Fur is not murder, but it is quite expensive.

I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.

Leave me in the night but please don't leave me in the dark

The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious