My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

Extreme justice is often injustice.

Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.

Sun, I come to see you for the last time.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

How good is God! How sweet his yoke!

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.

Read positive books

True friends are like diamonds. They shine for you even on the darkest days.

Do not go looking for boys in the dark They will say pretty things then leave you with scars. Do go looking for boys in the park For that is where the true gentlemen are.

All these experiments I've done over the years with technology have been asking whether I can tell stories that affect humans in a deeper way than I could without the technology.

I put the gold star up in the front window beside the flag. Alterations is what I know and what I did: hems, gussets and seams.

.....the research on the brain does not validate that we are singularly processing input or learning with a single sensory input.

I'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician. My teacher made sure that everything was available.

You watch a hockey game, and the hand-eye coordination and the speed is really miraculous; how those guys track the puck alone, just following it with their eyes.

In the culture of pluralism...the only thing that cannot be tolerated is a claim to exclusivity.

[James] Baldwin "was one of greatest intellectuals of his time. He was an important voice, period, not an important black voice."