Wie lange braucht man jeden Tag, bis man sich kennt.""How long it takes us, each day, to know each other.

People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.

Scent is the strongest tie to memory.

In the darkness, he is invisible, but I can still feel him beside me. Sometimes you don't have to see something to know it is there.

I always listen to you. Except when I don't.

Because you have only known me for like fourteen seconds and seven of those were us making out and you still know more about me than all of my friends in this stupid place.

I was trying to decide if you still had free will as a wolf. If I was a terrible person for planning to drug my girlfriend and drag her back to my house to keep in the basement.

Are there any other missing persons living under your roof? Elvis? Jimmy Hoffa? Amelia Earhart? I'd just like full disclosure now, before we go any further.

I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.

I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.

He sounded absolutely miserable. “Are you ever going to speak to me?

It takes a long time to learn how to do something simple.

Successes are like milestones while excellence is a never-ending journey.

The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.

I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.

I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.

Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we give our children a future of more or a future of less - this, too, is a choice.

Be wise, because the world needs more wisdom. And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.

I have sparred with commenters as a music writer (on The Rumpus, among other places, see e.g., my review about Taylor Swift), and that was plenty of training!

Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.

Oh, did I tell you I have a cookbook? I have a cookbook deal.