I almost ran you down, remember? I have to be nice to you, so you don't have me arrested.

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.

The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

There are no coincidences.

Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice

Who can judge the judge?

I'll love you until the day after forever.

It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove.

the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing . . . L E N A

When you confront, you save yourself a lot of sorrow.

Lust arrives as an angel disguised as love, but it's still lust, not love.

When you are accustomed to anything you are estranged from it.

News is the first rough draft of history.

I'm playing 10 feet from Mike Campbell every night. I look across the stage, there's Howie. Tom's in the middle and we're playing all this stuff I love. It's great.

People do forget there is still a lot of nostalgia in Russia for the Soviet Union.

A lot of bands whine about the road and how tough it is.

How simple life is. We buy a fish. We are fed. We sit close to each other, we talk and then we go to bed.

True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done.

Shakespeare never had more than 6 lines together without a fault.