(…) everything is finite. Life. Love. All this.' (…) 'Sadness too. Although that's harder to let go of than happiness.

Only other people can make you feel real.

Memory is curated. All this paraphernalia you collect to ward off forgetting

There are patterns because we try to find them. A desperate attempt at order because we can't face the terror that it might all be random.

Dope don't have no sympathy, not for love or family, definitely not for fear. Put dope and the devil up against each other in the ring, and dope will win out. Every single time.

Next time, can you ask him to bring cookies? I don't like to put up with that level of insane unless there's some kind of high-calorie compensation.

She laughs, and that's really all he wanted.

It's why you need other fingers, other tongues. Only other people can make you feel real.

Time heals. Crushes let up. Splinters work their way out. Doesn't mean they don't leave scars that itch.

A positive mind plus positive words will equal a positive outcome.

Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.

If I don't work for a while, I don't work for a while.

My God, give me neither poverty nor riches; but whatsoever it may be Thy will to give, give me with it a heart which knows humbly to acquiesce in what is Thy will.

My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults.

Terrorism is partly linked to people who have no jobs in Pakistan.

I was too important to go to Vietnam.

Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.

Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives.

But against love, the case was solid. Easily argued. And you could, indeed, hold it in your hand.