Once upon a time, when I was young, his forgetting might have rendered my memory meaningless. I no longer require so much from life.

It ended sadly. The kind of ending where you wait together, holding hands and weeping, while off in another room, love slowly dies.

After all, there are those people we like and dislike, there are those people we love, and then there are those we recognize. These are the unbreakable connections.

He remembers what I forget and I remember what he forgets. It's too late for either of us to make another old friend.

Napping is divine, but I no longer have all the time in the world.

I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.

The hospital bulked darkly in the darkness.

Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.

but I learned long ago that it does no good to think too far into the future. There is only here. Only now.

Every hip-hop artist I have worked with has a respect for higher power, whether that's church, Allah, or any sort of higher being - they all have a humbleness.

The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta.

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.

The ice sheets seem to be shrinking 100 years ahead of schedule.

[Emerson] was interested not in the bookworm, not even in the thinker, only in Man Thinking.