How much of life could he spend aching? Aching is not a stable condition; it must resolve into something

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

You deicde, and you make our night what you want. Brilliant and ours. Stupid and theirs.

There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.

It was so much easier to be alone, if one could find just the right location.

Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after.

Maria, groaning for scraps, would drape his head on my feet as I ate, trying to camouflage himself as my napkin or the rug.

God only allows us to see such things when he wants something to change

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

I don't want to be anything else other than what I am. I can say that with passion. No regrets.

Dear friend, I pray thee, if thou wouldst be proving Thy strong regard for me, Make me no vows. Lip-service is not loving; Let thy faith speak for thee.

Individual honors come with team success.

I'm the unknown everyone's already sick of.

Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel prize winners. They have the latest news and I have the technique.

I do not think making art alone makes it any better than making it with a team of people.

...[Cabeza de Vaca] ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else.

Each of us can do something to help someone.