You don't want to engage in road rage when the person in the next car might be your child's future teacher or your dentist's father.

Photography is all about secrets... The secrets we all have and will never tell.

You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.

She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight.

Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.

...and the distance between them, millimeters only, the space of a breath, opened up and deepened, became a cavern at whose edge he stood.

It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you.

Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.

You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

A moment might be a thousand different things.

Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while, and when you do you know that everything's connetcted to everything else.

Responsibilities fall heaviest on those willing to take the load.

I'm not a standup, but I play one on TV.

Even angels must find their wings too heavy sometimes.

Knowledge pursued for its own sake - that's the definition of education, as opposed to training.

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Throughout history the exemplary teacher has never been just an instructor in a subject; he is nearly always its living advertisement.

Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.

The best thing you can give yourselves...is the gift of possibility. And the best thing you can give each other is the pledge to go on protecting that gift in each other as long as you live.

Imagination is something you do alone.

I am against the fact that a settler minority should impose an entire system of values on an indigenous people.