Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.

Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.

That's what it felt like - that if I let a little of the hurt out, it would keep pouring out until I was a deflated balloon of a person, with a big monster of hurt in front of me.

I say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment.

I didn't want to see her. I was desperate to see her. I wanted to hold it together. I wanted to melt down right at her feet and scream, Look what you've done to me.

Part of my music is being alone, having that time to shut down all other noises to hear the tune underneath.

It is a sound like loneliness—enough to let you know you’re there, but not enough to fill you with life.

What are your interests?""Your son in my room, " I said."Excuse me?""The sun and the moon, " I said. "Astronomy.

Maybe fate's arithmetic is so diffuse that it's not arithmetic at all.

He was beautiful in the way that a breeze is beautiful—the kind of beauty you feel gratitude for.

It had never occurred to me that a person could know all the right things to say and deploy them to get what she wanted, without having to mean any of it.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

This moment is spectacular!

Someone who normally moved so slowly, this time, for once, was long gone.

Hold up to him his better self his real self that can dare and do and win out. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

I wouldn't know all that I do about history, if I spent my time watching cartoons and other TV shows.

The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women.

My pictures are made up of four or five colors that collide with one another.

And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves.

Obedience is the greatest refuge of the weak and the coward people!

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.