I didn't want to see her. I was desperate to see her. I wanted to hold it together. I wanted to melt down right at her feet and scream, Look what you've done to me.

Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.

That's what it felt like - that if I let a little of the hurt out, it would keep pouring out until I was a deflated balloon of a person, with a big monster of hurt in front of me.

Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.

I say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment.

Part of my music is being alone, having that time to shut down all other noises to hear the tune underneath.

It is a sound like loneliness—enough to let you know you’re there, but not enough to fill you with life.

What are your interests?""Your son in my room, " I said."Excuse me?""The sun and the moon, " I said. "Astronomy.

Maybe fate's arithmetic is so diffuse that it's not arithmetic at all.

He was beautiful in the way that a breeze is beautiful—the kind of beauty you feel gratitude for.

It had never occurred to me that a person could know all the right things to say and deploy them to get what she wanted, without having to mean any of it.

Seek knowledge to amaze yourself endlessly.

.......Love is physiologically a legal battle that lovers fight until death.

Life holds so much so much to be happy about always. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can be felt only if you don't set any conditions.

I regret that I should leave this world without again beholding him.

Theists and atheists are equally religious.

Hate is not a feeling toward another, but a feeling of defeat by another.

If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.

All religion is founded on prayer, and in prayer it has its test and measure.

Stuff your eyes with wonder.