Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

Don't judge a book by its cover

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.

No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.

I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!

Don't judge a book by its cover.

Do I regret getting married? It's hard for me to say anything because ultimately we're talking about the mother of my child.

Unfortunately, the current generation of mail programs do not have checkers to see if the sender knows what he is talking about.

Idiot wind, blowing every time you open your mouth.

I have a radio show for the Sirius Satellite Radio Network. It's an interview show. It's called The Spectrum.

Anytime I was challenged and told I couldn't do something, I would absolutely have to prove the opposite. And I did.

It's like, once you've seen Tom Hanks win the Golden Globes, the Oscars, you've seen his wife, what kind of car he drives, when you watch his movies, you can't fully get really lost in them.

It feels like we're in a Harry Potter book talking about He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.

Music is what I love, take that away from me and I really got nothing.

Why be second best at anything?

Desire God, and you will have desires from God.