Everyone wanted answers I wasn't ready to give.

And it's hard to hate someone once you understand them.

The people we care for aren't always the one we should

How long will you keep me?" I asked. You shrugged. "Forever, of course.

You saw me before I saw you. You had that look in your eyes, as if you wanted something. Wanted it for a long time.

Those blue, blue eyes, icy blue, looking back at me as if I could warm them up. They’re pretty powerful, you know, those eyes, pretty beautiful, too.

Far, far away something made a single ghostly howl, like a banshee in the dark.

It was like I existed in a kind of parallel universe, thinking thoughts and feelings that no one else understood.

Nobody's bought this land. And no one's going to want it either. It's dying land, lonely land." "Like me, then," I said. "Yes, like you." You chewed the corner of your lip. "You both need saving.

Because it's magic, this place . . . beautiful. And you're beautiful . . . beautifully separate. It all fits.

I craved your warmth. I hugged myself, rubbing my fingers up and down. I guess people are like insects sometimes, drawn to heat, A kind of infra-red longing.

You can do it. Go ahead and pursue your dreams.

People it seems, are busy leading their lives into the future, whereas psychology, for the most part, is busy tracing them into the past.

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.

I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Comedy is a very rough beat. It's no holds barred, as it should be.

The failure to invest in our public transportation and public life, I think, is a scandal and a shame, and it should be a national embarrassment.

Music is a fair and glorious gift of God. I am strongly persuaded that after theology, there is no art which can be placed on the level with music.

I want to be a person crazy about music.

Forced federal registration of U.S. citizens based on religious identity is fascism, period. Nothing else to call it.