I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.

You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons.

It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.

dear today, i spend all of you pretending i'm okay when i'm not, pretending i'm happy when i'm not, pretending about everything to everyone.

I’ll make a swing so I can reach the places I can’t reach yet.

He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much.

This is what I want so don't be sad.

No, " I say. "I didn't know that, " and as I say it I feel flooded with bitterness at all the things Ingrid kept secret from me.

That's what friends do: they notice things. They're there for each other. They see what parents don't.

I was such a quiet kid, so shy and calm and in my own head. Of course I knew about being sad. Maybe that's the reason I saved all the things I thought were pretty.

He is Romeo, and he is heartbroken. Every word is wistful. When he says, 'O, teach me how I should forget to think!' I, for the first time, see what the big deal is about Shakespeare.

... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think.

That dress makes me want to do bad things to you." There was a long pause in which her sweet honeysuckle scent grew, twisting around him. Finally she spoke, her voice low. "What kinds of things?

My wife and I, we like to ride where there's not much traffic.

It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things work but only the kind of quick, easy outer impression that they get.

Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it.

All the women in the world want a phony rock star who plays guitar.

There is a 'patrician arrogance' to James Taylor that accounts in part for his popularity while it at the same time explains the critical resistance to his work.

I believe good plans are the best way to maximize fun, avoid disaster, and possibly, save the world. I spend a lot of my time making them.

When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, Sarah Palin tweeted, 'Obama lies; freedom dies.' She's referring, I guess, to the freedom to go without health care when you're sick.

What makes the difference is not how many times you have been through the Bible, but how many times and how thoroughly the Bible has been through you.