For my 20th birthday in March, I'll buy myself a present for doing my best. A one way ticket to Tokyo. All I need is my guitar and a pack of cigarettes.

People like hurting each other but loving is not a waste.

I am pissed off at your insensitive inability to understand why I'm pissed off in the first place.

Forgetting about our mistakes and our wounds isn't enough to make them disappear.

The longer we live the more weight we carry in our hearts.

Don't just give up, Hachiko. Life is about getting knocked down over and over, but still getting up each time. If you keep getting up, you win.

Are you living everyday so that even if the end were to come you’d have to regrets?

Even if you fulfill your hearts desire, by sacrificing something important, you may not necessarily be happy. Happiness doesn’t come in one form, it determined by your own heart.

Having someone you love say "Thank you" is more rewarding than just having them say "I love you.

Please leave me something...even one memory would be enough.

His hands are saying that he wants to hold her. His feet are saying that he wants to chase after her... He's probably forgotten that I'm here, beside him

The perfect orchestration of the symphony of life is one of the Creator's greatest and most beautiful miracles.

The philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the present with the past.

I'm aware of how unprofessional this is and yet I can't stop myself.

Mist in the morning is Earth’s morning breath…

Maybe we become New Yorkers the day we realize that New York will go on without us.

When you read the New Testament, you see the Holy Spirit was supposed to change everything so that this gathering of people who call themselves Christians had this supernatural element about them.

The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her.

"Yield" was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988.

No monkey ever reheated a frozen burrito.

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.