Maybe fate's arithmetic is so diffuse that it's not arithmetic at all.

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.

He was beautiful in the way that a breeze is beautiful—the kind of beauty you feel gratitude for.

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.

It's sort of my go-to stock image of my childhood, actually. I think it has something to do with knowing I'll never be able to go back to that time that makes me cry every time I listen to it.

I want us to be a connected team-on and off the field.

A Bit of Craziness Is Good for Business

A lot of people who are involved in self-discovery lose energy to abusive teachers, to abusive friends and to entities, non-physical beings.

A general message to "everyone" on the planet would go something along the lines of, "Make Love, Not War."

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

Where there is real love one wants to go to church first.

Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century.

I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.

You have to be passionate about something other than yourself!