If one is not careful, even our darkest demons become our closest friends.

We always need a sound reason to move on, and we always pretend to have it.

Even in that 'now' moment at which you feel you reach some form of "enlightenment", it will still be a 'moment'. There will still be more life afterward, and changes will still occur.

More than the Big Mac, Coca Cola, or Levi's 501 jeans, the dollar is surely the United States' signature export.

Wo ai ni, Tessa,” he whispered. “Wo bu xiang shi qu ni.” She knew, without knowing how she knew, what the words meant. I love you. And I don’t want to lose you.

I'm looking for activity. I put players in and take them out based on effort and defense, not making or missing shots

I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else.

Oratory is good only if it has the qualities of fitness for the occasion, propriety of style, and originality of treatment, while in the case of letters there is no such need whatsoever.

All poetry and music, and art of every true sort, bears witness to man's continual falling in love with beauty and his desperate attempt to induce beauty to live with him and enrich his common life.

The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine.

It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.