She's the main character in her story, just like I'm the main character in mine.

I don’t think love is blind, true love is probably the most clear-eyed state of being there is.’‘Maybe you’re right. Maybe with true love, you see and you love anyway…

You're stressing too much about what might be. Do something to take your mind off thinking about what might never happen.

If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

It's the job, I think, of leaders to try to address peoples' real legitimate concerns and channel them in the most constructive ways possible.

Do one thing that's heroic for you today - big or small - and fear won't define you anymore.

I prefer the school of life.

Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology coincides with its representation.

And some are fall'n, to disobedience fall'n, And so from Heav'n to deepest Hell; O fall From what high state of bliss into what woe!

What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory.

To-morrow it seemLike the empty words of a dreamRemembered on waking.

I've always been fascinated by Japanese culture.