I'll love you with all the madness in my soul.

All I do know is that as we age the weight of our unsorted baggage becomes heavier...much heavier. With each passing year, the price of our refusing to do that sorting rises higher and higher.

As Branford Marsalis said in a beautiful essay he write upon Clarence's death, C was blessed with 'the power of musical intent.

As we'd slogged away for weeks on the Convention Hall stage in isolation, trying to pump life into our much-vaunted songbook, there'd been only one thing missing: you.

Aging is scary but fascinating, and great talent morphs in strange and often enlightening ways.

The most difficult thing about writing

For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape.

Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone.

Cooking today is far greater than it ever was, and more importantly, a chef's role today has changed dramatically over the last decade.

An excuse is a polite rejection. Men are not afraid of 'ruining the friendship.

I wasn't dating anyone. I was fornicating with Batman.

People are so different in reality from the picture created of them on TV. So it's all a creation; everything is made up.

I was always inspired by Sigourney [Weaver]. She's been able to have such beautiful diversity in her career and that's a really impressive thing.

Empathy is cloaked in our actions - as in, we might be experiencing empathy but not realize it's empathy.

God's grace and mercy have brought you through. Quit acting as if you made it on your own.