And all the countries seemed the same, That I don't see myself there, And I don't see myself here.

The female doesn't want a rich man or a handsome man or even a poet, she wants a man who understands her eyes if she gets sad, and points to his chest and say : 'Here is your home country.'

If you want to kill somebody, conquer his heart, Then leave slowly and leave them between death and madness.

A tragedy, when a mature mind and a romantic heart are in the same body.

My lover asks me: “What is the difference between me and the sky?” The difference, my love, Is that when you laugh, I forget about the sky

The most dangerous heart disease: strong memory

And the writing is still : to you, with you, about you, because of you and for you.

Days will pass, and you’ll abandon things you were addicted to, and leave someone, and cancel a dream, and finally, accept a reality.

Because my love for you is beyond words, I decided to shut up.

Before you came the world was prose. Now poetry is born.

There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned.

I had the opportunity to learn more about what life is like for a soldier [in The Yellow Birds].

I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.

Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.

I just want to say that we are going to hit ISIS hard, and I mean really hard, but I do think this.

Every band that I've known that has done side projects or things like that - I don't respect them anymore.

I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.

It is a strength of character to acknowledge our failings and our strong points, and it is a weakness of character not to remain in harmony with both the good and the bad that is within us.

Don't make assumptions.

What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity

Where reverence is, there is fear; for he who has a feeling of reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and is afraid of an ill reputation.