You need shoving, not pushing. You need to jump back on that camel. Otherwise you're going to stay up on the ledge you've made for yourself.

I just sat there letting that music cover me like a big, cozy blanket.

The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.

Sorry wastes time. You have to live your life like you'll never be sorry. It's easier just to do the right thing from the start so there's nothing to apologize for.

It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting.

We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial.

Music did that to me, just like God was supposed to, because music seemed both magic and holy.

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own - my words are gone.

I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.

You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.

No more winter at all. Finch, you brought me spring.

I will try to disappoint youbetter than anyone else has.

What I know is the product of the hand I have been dealt and how I have reacted to that hand

Inception. Invention. Innovation.

The infinite possibilities. That's what used to do my nut in.

The ideal life is that which has few friends, but many acquaintances.

My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away.

No animal has to suffer for me to live.

A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.

Some of us are sixty feet long with a brain the size of a walnut.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.