I’m scared I’m going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am.

What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?" "Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand.

What do you want from me?" he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More.

Hold my hand because I might disappear.

But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.

Do you think people have noticed that I'm around?" "I notice when you're not. Does that count?

No," I say, looking up at Griggs. "It's actually because my heart belongs to someone else." And if I could bottle the look on his face, I'd keep it by my bedside for the rest of my life.

The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable.

I think if I'm ever asked to recall what Year 12 was all about, I'll remember it as one big cappuccino experience.

It's like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like your first plan, no matter how fantastic the second one makes you feel.

Maybe memories should be left the way they are.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

After reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write

I’m of the camp that if an angel tells you one thing, and a man in ruby slippers tells you another, you go with the angel.

Back then I was called Dumbo because of my ears. I was called Fatty, too. It was hurtful so I became like the class clown. I became the one who was kicked around.

I think if you write music for soundtracks then sometimes you do something that you could never do if the film did not exist.

We are so divided, and we recognize that we're divided, that we're looking for ways to come together.

It's always good to be working.

The proper form of economy must be observed in building houses for each and every class.

Interviewing people, I don't miss that at all. I do miss kibitzing with the audience because after every show I would spend half an hour to 40 minutes talking to people.

Whom we fear more than love, we are not far from hating.