I went on loving him just the same, and I could never be interested in anyone else.

I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

She was seriously in love, but she never made demands.

I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.

Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.

Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself.

Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.

Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am not to have anyone to weep with!

There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.

People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.

All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!

I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.

As an artist and a songwriter myself, I like to feel connected to modern culture and watch how sounds change.

In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?

If you want to take it up a step and aim to become a competitive gymnast, you have to be mentally strong and prepared to take on the workload of going to the gym every day, rain or shine.

I'm not a Democrat; I'm something well to the left of a Democrat, but I'm just realistic about the system.