I say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment.

Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.

That's what it felt like - that if I let a little of the hurt out, it would keep pouring out until I was a deflated balloon of a person, with a big monster of hurt in front of me.

Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.

I didn't want to see her. I was desperate to see her. I wanted to hold it together. I wanted to melt down right at her feet and scream, Look what you've done to me.

Part of my music is being alone, having that time to shut down all other noises to hear the tune underneath.

It is a sound like loneliness—enough to let you know you’re there, but not enough to fill you with life.

What are your interests?""Your son in my room, " I said."Excuse me?""The sun and the moon, " I said. "Astronomy.

Maybe fate's arithmetic is so diffuse that it's not arithmetic at all.

He was beautiful in the way that a breeze is beautiful—the kind of beauty you feel gratitude for.

It had never occurred to me that a person could know all the right things to say and deploy them to get what she wanted, without having to mean any of it.

Situations spin out of control because care was not taken to carefully manage reality through desires.

But for some reason the Department believed all students should learn the exact same way and at the exact same time, demonstrating that no one in Instruction knew the first thing about children.

I love a woman with a relaxed attitude.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.

Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.

If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don't need tax loopholes to make money.

I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.

But my middle daughter, Kate, is very involved in martial arts, and I was just at one of her competitions.

The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.