Beneath all of her thoughts and worries, beneath the complication of conflicting identities and needs, maybe it's as simple as loving the way some other person looks when they're sleeping.

And it's exactly what's wrong with the radio. It's like...anything that tries to appeal to everybody always ends up sounding so cheap.

Imagination is a place where all the important answers live.

The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.

When she cries, it is quiet, tearless, almost completely imperceptible: one more unheard prayer.

The most important things in your life are almost always impossible to predict.

The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave.

Maybe that's why people have friends at all. Not because they like them so much but because they don't make them feel so much worse.

The world of evil is only as evil as we allow it to be.

Our worlds are so momentary. We are along all our lives and then go off that way as well.

Maybe it was better to just go on believing everything was OK, even when really bad things were just about to happen.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Anderson [Cooper], I guess the question I have is why can't CNN cover Obamacare, and ISIS, and radical Islamic terrorism?

We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam

Humour ended up being a really useful skill when it came time to be an international television celebrity.

Only that which can be switched, can be.

The equations at which we arrive must be such that a person of any nation, by substituting the numerical values of the quantities as measured by his own national units, would obtain a true result.

When the road seems to be endlessly long, increase your speed!

Sometimes we complain, but there is something beautiful about waking up before everyone to get better at what we love.

If we can give up attachment to our roles as helpers, then maybe our clients can give up attachment to their roles as patients

I've never seen a great actor do a major role that didn't cost a lot. They're sacrificial animals of a sort.