Don't tie your success to anything other than what's inside you

Blake took her face in his hands. “You let me touch you. Kiss you. Your skin? It feels like piano keys. My hands know just where to go.

You make the rest of the beautiful things in the world cry for even trying at all. You make it hard for me to breathe.

In that moment? I knew you were sent to me, that I'd been given nothing from the people in my life, but I think from God, or whoever is in charge, I got you.

True love, the kind that lasts forever, is very rare indeed. It takes compromise, continued growth, and trust.

I have lived with you and loved you, and now you are gone. Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished all of my days.

The conversation was like the sort one has in dreams—mad but interesting.

Kind old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always go to a good man, they say[.]

Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food.

Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems.

Democracy is no solution - it's just 51% bossing the other 49% around. For God's sake, Hitler was democratically elected! Democracy is just mob rule dressed up in a coat and tie.

I think it’s odd how it’s mirrored my life so much.

In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves.

The blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.

I have a lot of stuff that I never published because I always had a sense that novels were not finally going to be the way I made my living, because the form was dying commercially.