Silence is a protective coating over pain.

My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.

I did Lassie for six years and I never had anybody come up to me and say, 'It made me want to be a farmer.

Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it.

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics.

A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity.

Always do what you're afraid to do. ... I will prove myself strong when they think I am sick. I will prove myself brave when they think I am weak.

Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.

It is the story that matters, not just the ending.

The problem is I can think whatever I think but I still feel the way I feel.

Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them.

The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself.

He rode upon a cherub and did fly: yea he did fly upon the wings of the wind.

Egotism: the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.

It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.

People are like plants: They grow; they change every day.

Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today.

My heart was simultaneously broken and filled with lust, I was exhausted, and I loved every minute of it. It was strange and elating to find myself for once the weaker.

The stars, bright sentinels of the skies.