Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.

I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?

To embark on the journey towards your goals and dreams requires bravery. To remain on that path requires courage. The bridge that merges the two is commitment.

Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it.

Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.

If you follow your heart, you will find harmony.

I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.

I look and look, / As though I could be saved simply by looking

Positivity doesn't just change the contents of your mind...It widens the span of possibilities that you see.

Intonation is important, especially when it is cold.

There is one privilege we'll never lose; currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.

Lena's hair was sticking out in about fifteen directions, and her eyes were all small and puffy from crying. So this was what girls looked like in the morning. I had never seen one, not up close.