Mom's always telling me to smile and hoping I'll turn into a smiley person, which, to be honest, is kind of annoying.

Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried to forget anyway, and to ignore the fact that I was remembering you all the time.

Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.

Pajamas are good for the soul.

The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story, changing the way things come together.

She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school.

Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It's how we're used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way.

Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean.

Life is really just a bunch of nows, one after the other.

I don't know. I just feel stuck, like I'm afraid to take any steps, in case they're the wrong ones.

Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds.

Medicine is as close to love as it is to science, and its relationships matter even at the edge of life itself.

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may Old Time is still aflying And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying.

Of course, you have to have a good reputation, especially as an artist, as a musician, so that other musicians would like to play with you.

I'm not interested in making clothes that are not accessible.

This is the pure form of servitude: to exist as an instrument.

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.

Selfishness, eager for a heaven of enjoyment, is quite a different thing in the soul from love and purity and truth, yearning together for what is their natural element.

When you're making an album with people who made your favorite records as a rebellious teenager, it feels like you've achieved something.