Things change after you die, though- I guess because dying is about the lonliest thing you can do.

Hope keeps you alive.

A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.

I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.

I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa

Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.

How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?

This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.

Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close.

Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.

And then, just at that moment, when I'm no longer sure if I'm dreaming or awake or walking some valley in between where everything you wish for comes true, I feel the flutter of his lips on mine.

Nearly every historic fruit and vegetable variety once found in the United States has disappeared.

A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he's the only one who can save the ship.

The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.

I don't think of myself as a TV actor. I think of myself as a film, television and Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway actor.

I feel like the universe is so big it'd be foolish to pull out the "no" for it.

I don't rely on the media. I usually average one speech a day for 25 years. People know me because I'm out there.

Do we ask what profit the little bird hopes for in singing?

Perhaps we just need little reminders from time to time that we are already dignified, deserving, worthy.

Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very early in the history of stairs must have come the invention of bannisters.

In this case they're doctors. But having passion for your work and to take risks in order to better human kind. That's a pretty big theme. It's pretty inspiring.