You got a death wish, Truant?' Which was the thing that scared me. 'Cause maybe I did.

Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free across the hold.

Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.

Have no fear, you will find your way. It's in your bones. It's in your soul.

Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.

I want something else. I'm not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it's drenched in sunlight and it's weightless and I know it's not cheap. Probably not even real

Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive.

Little solace comes to those who grieve when thoughts keep drifting as walls keep shifting and this great blue world of ours seems a house of leaves moments before the wind.

We all create stories to protect ourselves.

Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.

Who has never killed an hour?

He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

Last century’s magic is this year’s science.

For some people, being mean to others is the point of their lives.

As citizens, we understand that it is not about what America may do for us. It's about what can be done by us, together.

When you are in harmonywith yourself, you'll be in harmony with everyone else.

It's nice that all the composers have said that nobody interprets a lyric like Fred Astaire. But when it comes to selling records I was never worth anything particularly except as a collector's item.

I'm a thief. I steal scenes, I steal opportunities. I am the ultimate thief. I got sticky fingers.

I am finishing a biography of [Gustave] Flaubert. Because he is the opposite of what I am. One needs to rub up against argument.

I'm usually pretty happy. I don't ever really get disturbed in any way, or feel like I need to go back and change something.

For me particularly, when I listen to or make the music of the team called SHINee, I think that ultimately SHINee is me and I am SHINee.