I was just trying to fit in to the stereotype American dream, exactly what my parents and everyone expected of me, i met someone who's -- who's awesome, you know, we got along good.

Notes are part of life for any composer for hire. There's no way around it. I think anyone who has done even a small number of films as a professional composer gets used to that idea pretty quickly.

Each film does bring a new set of personalities and it can turn out great or it can turn out not great.

And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly.

You’ll never get a new ending if you keep starting with the same tired beginning.

It's true that I love to connect with my fans on the social networking sites, but I try not to go overboard, ever. I just give people a peek into my mind space, but never bombard them with my tweets.

Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.

When somebody shares, everybody wins.

Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.

I try to always have flowers in the house. I have a florist in Chinatown, and they deliver orchids every two weeks. I like living with living things.

Fasting is the first principle of medicine.

It was as if he grew his hair long and smoked cigarettes because he liked to, not because he liked being seen to. This was dangerously subversive.

I may be the wrong person for my life.