Decades from now, my grandchild is going to be a poet... And she's going to write about how she's a living testament to how her grandmother made love to hurricane and calmed the storm.

And perhaps, I'm a Tuesday night and you're a Wednesday morning the way we'll never even notice how we blend into each other.

He loved me like thick molasses on a summer's day. Pure, sweet, sticky, warm, dark.

But when I think of us, in the quiet when I'm on my own, I think of Beauty and the Beast.I, being the beast, and you being the last beautiful thing in this city.

Time doesn't need to be found, it is in plain sight ticking away loudly all the time. How we use it is the only question.

You can't buy love but you can pay heavily for it.

To gain the book, one must give up all hope for the book. It is the only way the book can get written.

And the basic sort of thrust of Star Trek being about equality and tolerance and things I believe in deeply.

Love becomes greater and nobler in calamity.

We call for cancelling student debt, for bailing out young people like Wall Street was bailed out to the tune of $16 trillion.

It takes a lot of courage to choose to do nothing when you aren’t certain of the outcome.

I like writing music that I think is beautiful, but perfection isn't really beautiful to me.

There is nothing in the cosmos, either in the material plane or the spiritual plane which cannot be directly cognized.

I was kind of a bouncy kid. I used to roller-skate into the sides of cars.