I thought maybe we mourned not only for the dead but also for the living. We felt their absence before we knew for sure they were gone.

Love hides in all sorts of places, in the most sorrowful corner of your heart, in the darkest and most hopeless situation

words, you see, " he said, looking at me again, "allow us to make permanent what is essentially transient.Turn a world filled with injustice and hurt into a place that is beautiful and lyrical.

I said nothing. Deep inside of me, my voice screamed from a hole where I had buried it

It is important to study your mission and your goal

I thought I would die without you.Lol, silly me.

In my song you catch at times Note sweeter far than mine, And in the tangle of my rhymes Can scent the eglantine.

One of the pleasures of being an actor is that it takes you places you wouldn't ordinarily go, and you don't enter as a tourist, you really enter the life of the place.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

Salvation lies in an energetic march onward towards a brighter and clearer future.

Writing a book isn’t an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life’s most satisfying achievements.

In L.A., you really are in your car all day alone, and there's very little public life.

I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood.

Every pain has a gain behind it