People wonder why you choose certain subjects to write about. The truth is: you don't really. They choose you

You put your time where your priority is.

Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us.

The end-of-summer winds make people restless.

The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.

Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.

Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.

Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.

Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.

That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.

If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial.

Happiness is the inner perception of calmness, tranquility and joy.

Fenugreek, Tuesday's spice, when the air is green like mosses after rain.

It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

I feel so thankful that I'm able to be a part of something that I love to wake up and run to work every day.

Revenue and wealth do not bring disgrace.

I've been thinking about where I want to take my live show. I want everything in it to be pink, gold, and black. I don't want people to feel any other colors, like brown or yellow.

Often when we ask for advice, we don't really want advice-we want someone to say "That's great! Go for it!"

So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood (Riza Hawkeye -- Fullmetal Alchemist)

I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.

It isn't the thing you do, dear, it's the thing you leave undone which gives you a bit of heartache at the setting at the setting of the sun.