How was your afternoon?"“No one died, so it was a big improvement on my morning.

This is us at forty-three per cent animosity.

There is nothing I can do to keep time from wedging more of itself between us.

I can hear Isaac's smile. It softens his words, but they have a different meaning now. Between his mouth and my ears, they pass through everything that has happened since.

The swaggering underemphasis of New England.

You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.

Be afraid of nothing. You have within you all wisdom, all power, all strength, all understanding.

Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.

[Alfred] Hitchcock was very interested in the image on the screen.As is any good cinema director. That is the language they speak. It is not literature, it is images on screen.

Perhaps the single most successful international agreement to date has been the Montreal Protocol.

I was one of several songwriters I think interviewed [for Moana]. I'm a huge fan of Disney animated movies, and I've always wanted to write an animated score since I was a little kid.

You can't just sit around in leopard-print slippers and drink champagne all day and think everything's gonna work out somehow.

The stereotypes we pretend that we reject are ingrained in our DNA.

I said, O Love, tell me this: Does the Lord know you are treating me this way? Love said to me, yes He does, just be totally… totally… silent