Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.

Hope keeps you alive.

A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.

I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.

I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa

Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.

How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?

This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.

Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close.

Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.

And then, just at that moment, when I'm no longer sure if I'm dreaming or awake or walking some valley in between where everything you wish for comes true, I feel the flutter of his lips on mine.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

One day I'll be as strong as people think I am.

The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'.

She's beautiful and therefore to be woo'd: She is a woman therefore to be won.

It's not terribly dignified to have anyone seeing one laugh at one's own material.

Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge.

Just when I thought you couldn't get any dumber, you go and do something like this... and totally redeem yourself!

Celebrity has its uses. I can always get a seat in any restaurant.

Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.