I'm sorry. I didn't know you were coming or I'd have cleaned up a little more. My life, I mean, not just the apartment.

Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

The pain has left but I know that it has not gone far, that it is sulking somewhere in a corner or under the bed and it will jump out when I least expect it.

There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.

Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.

Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.

It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.

we both smile and we are conspirators.

Freedom is my soul-spirit set free from any chains.

Never run back to whatever broke you.

Even in success, you're going to be constantly rejected.

The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.

Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure.

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

It's ironic: In movies, the most successful films of all time have been sci-fi or fantasy. By far. But a lot of people won't even read science fiction books.

As much as everything can seem to be about patterns in your self and others, within the drama of all that, it's really all about knowing.

There is nothing love cannot face; there is limit to its faith, its hope and endurance.

The river was always there inside of me, but I was very shy. I could see that this was my path. I felt destiny in my own music.