How can you call it love when it hurt you so badly?" "It was love because it was worth it.

The main thing I wanted to say, and thankfully it’s what most people say they get out of the book, is simply an acknowledgement that we do affect each other in ways we can’t predict.

No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.

You can hear rumors. But you can't know them.

You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret ...is to press play.

I've always loved brainstorming with other writers, and I consider having my work critiqued a part of that brainstorming.

And at some point, the struggle becomes too much-too tiring-and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy... or whatever... to happen.

You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.

Everything...affects everything

After all, how often do we get a second chance?

In the end....everything matters.

You may not appreciate the value of a key until you encounter the door it locks or unlocks.

My father's haunting memories of war had been transformed into my own haunting memories. Such is the power of war and memory.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!

There is a big age gap between my sisters Janice and Irma and myself so I didn't know them that well when I was younger although they have been very supportive in later life.

If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on doing it.

If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.

But if the vision is strong enough, and your goals are steady, and you believe, pretty soon you bring other people with you.

Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.

Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.

I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.