So what’s your story?” Ryan asks.Avery looks up at him, hand still in the water. “My story?”“Yeah. Everybody has at least one.

When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it.

Pink is female - but why? Are girls any more pink than boys? Are boys any more blue than girls? It's something that has been sold to us, mostly so other things can be sold to us.

We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust.That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust.

Truces may stop the battles, but part of you will always feel like you're at war.

It's hard to think of such things when you are busy dreaming or loving or screwing. The context falls away.

I'm sorry, " he says. "I don't usually like people. So when I do, part of me is really amused and the other part refuses to believe it's happening.

As soon as Neil is out of the shower, he texts Peter. You up? he asks.And the reply comes instantly:For anything.

What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread

Dreaming and loving and screwing. None of these are identities. Maybe when other people look at us, but not to ourselves. We are so much more complicated than that.

This is the power of a kiss: It does not have the power to kill you. But it has the power to bring you to life.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.

In my darkness, my pathway was marked by the brightness of light.

... but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.

Hitler is a prodigious genius.

When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.

Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.

Be funny on a golf course? Do I kid my best friend's mother about her heart condition?

You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.

I love music and I enjoy creating sounds. I got into making music when I was a child, starting with the spoons and the koto before moving onto the piano.