We have lunch at ten-forty-five, ” Colin said. A stupidly early lunch. At our school, the older you get, the stupider your lunch period.

She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school.

Well, it's simple to love someone, " she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.

Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It's how we're used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way.' 'In the way of what?' 'In the way of what's true.

And when the veil lifts, we can see the world as it really is, just for those few seconds before it settles down again. We see all the beauty, and cruelty, and sadness, and love.

What's the burn scale?

It is simply expression, as Henry says, that gives reality to things.

People who are thinking about your music almost as much as you are, that almost never happens.

You can’t put the past behind you. It’s buried in you; it’s turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.

Skills are really just circuits in your brain

We don't need any more teachers. We don't. We need friends.

It has been proven that more Americans watch television than any other appliance.

People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something.

Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange.

Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything.