hearing women singing about themselves - rather than men singing about women - makes everything seem wonderfully clear, and possible

It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine.

Because I haven't yet learned the simplest and most important thing of all: the world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind.

He was bright, bright, bright, like a lantern above a pub door in November- he made you want to come in and never leave.

Please wait for me. Don't have all the fun now. Don't fill up on other people who aren't me. Don't ruin your appetite.

In the end, I go where I always go when I need information on something baffling, poisonous, or terrifying: the library.

If I don't keep this job, then my only future career-options are working in Argos, or being a prostitute, ' I say, w

I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can still do it if you're not clinging to the notion of nobility.

If you have to go back through your day in your head, try to go back to only the good things. Look at those, and what you did well. Otherwise, life kind of passes you by.

Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'

You five and ten cent women with nothing in your heads, I got a real gal I'm loving and Lord I'll love her 'til I'm dead.

I know that we sin but I do believe we try, we all try.

She did not look at the daffodils. They didn't mean anything. She looked at the daffodils. She said, 'Thank you for the daffodils.

People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.

I go to bed at night worrying that I didn't do enough that day to make sure I protect the American people.

And I think to myself what a wonderful world. Oh, yeah.

If you remember your lineage, you will never feel lonely.