All good things come to an end. All bad things go on forever.

But choosing to lovingly care for her was like steering a plane into a mountain as gently as possible. The crash is imminent; it's how you spend your time on the way down that counts.

It reminded him that time was short, but that beautiful endings could still be found at the end of cold, dreary days.

Some things just can't be put back together. Some things can never be fixed. Two broken pieces can't make a lot of anything anymore. But at least he had the broken pieces.

Hope can get you through anything.

The library is like a candy store where everything is free.

I try not to live in the past...but...sometimes the past lives in me

The hardest choices in life aren't between what's right and what's wrong but between what's right and what's best.

As an author, I get paid to break my own heart on a regular basis.

He'd do what he always did, find the sweet among the bitter.

He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about.

Upon my word, Emma, to hear you abusing the reason you have, is almost enough to make me think so too. Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

Science is much better at finding things that exist than at ruling out things that don't.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

If I hear the word 'retire,' it makes me want to throw up. And then do what? Sit around all day watching television?

When the music arrives in my mind, it gives me the direction and the form at the same time. It's integrated into the music itself.

A solid sense of self will help a person to lead a full and happy life.

Character + Chance = Success

I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.

You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software.

[...] beer results in ideas, which results in new code.