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.

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

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.

I see a brightportionunder the overhead lightthat shades intodarknessand then into darkerdarknessand I can't see beyond that.

I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair and surprise.

I could fall in love with Dallas Winston, " she said. "I hope I never see himagain, or I will.

Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.

It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of me.

It does not seem to me that the evidence concerning the being of a God, and concerning immortality, is such as to enable us to assert anything in regard to either of these topics.

Effective communication is a key factor in the success of your product.

The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion, but an iron law of evolution.

You don't raise $15 million by accident. I'm asking him to come forward and quit claiming he doesn't know what's going on in his own campaign.

The Indian mind is first religious, then anything else. So this is to be strengthened.