The ending has to fit. The ending has to matter, and make sense. I could care less about whether it's happy or sad or atomic. The ending is the place where you go, “Aha. Of course. That's right.”

I just think about how saying that you love someone can make your heart feel like some sort of brownie sundae, warm, gooey, sweet and good.

We all live with our losses. We don't want to, but we can

You know, life fractures us all into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that make us stronger.

Home is where the heart is.

I like a lot of things that aren't good for me.

It's hard to save the world when you can't save yourself

Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning.

It's a lot easier to understand things once you name them. It's the unknown that mostly freaks me out. I don't know the name of that fear, but I know I've got it, the fear of the unknown.

What we do, our choices, that's what defines us

It is love which made all this. War which protects it. With love comes responsibility and possibility, fear and hopes, quests and suffering.

At the end, one didn't remember life as a whole but as just a string of moments.

Life is all about doing what you feel is best for you”.

Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito.

This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

Complexity is not good. People don't understand the elegance of simplicity.

Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's.

You can always pound out demos and send them to record companies, but most of the successful bands I've seen are the ones that can sustain themselves.

The great irony is that women are accused of making romantic comedies, as if it’s a bad thing, but Marc Webb makes a romantic comedy and he gets ‘Spider-Man.’ Are you kidding me? You cannot win.

Sometimes you have to show them what they want to see in order to get them to show you who they really are.