When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.

Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.

There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one.

One of Renee's friends asked her, "Does your boyfriend wear glasses?" She said, "No, he wears a Walkman.

A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.

I was totally clueless about social interaction, and completely scared of girls. All I knew was that music was going to make girls fall in love with me.

You know the Prince song where the girl's phone rings but she tells him, "whoever's calling couldn't be as cute as you?" I long to live out this moment in real life.

It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.

I'd shut the whole world down just to tell you

And being a husband made me helpless, because I had somebody to protect (somebody a little high-strung, who had a tough time emotionally with things like the lights going out indefinitely).

The songs were all either fast or sad. Because all songs should be either fast or sad.

When you discover the difference between consciousness and the brain, you will discover yourself.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

Lord, spit on our eyes that we may see, how to wake up from this tragedy.

Without Christ there is no hope.

If I be not in a state of grace, I pray God place me in it; if I be in it, I pray God keep me so.

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

I'm cursed with the gift of foresight.

We need to elect leaders who understand that leadership is about loving and serving people, not about self-advancement.