I realized that your mother couldn't see the emptiness, she couldn't see anything...All of the words I'd written to her over all of those years, had I never said anything to hear at all?

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!

The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.

Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.

Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.

Songs are as sad as the listener.

Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.

He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.

If everyone bows in front of your wisdom, your greatest wisdom will be to tell them not to bow!

Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential.Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it.

Growing up is when you understand you get what you give, not what you're given.

The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

Writers sometimes are paid a great deal of money, but much more frequently they're not paid or are paid only a little bit.

So when we start talking about the state and all those that are so important and engaged and supportive around Florida, we've gotten overwhelming support, and it's so exciting.

My security comes from my senses, my sensing the direction I should go and suddenly I felt out of tune, out of step with what other people wanted or what other people expected of me.

The legs feed the wolf.

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.

Playing a villain was fun, only because you get to do all the things you wouldn't normally do in your real life.