…she smiles in an exhausted but warm sort of way, as though she is a brilliant sun in some other galaxy

Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

The pain has left but I know that it has not gone far, that it is sulking somewhere in a corner or under the bed and it will jump out when I least expect it.

There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.

Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.

Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.

It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.

we both smile and we are conspirators.

be determined with patience that's it.. game is yours..

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Ted Kennedy's achievements as a senator have towered over his time, changing the lives of far more Americans than remember the name Mary Jo Kopechne.

In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom.

Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.

I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee.

The studio and road both have their charms. The studio allows me to be a mad scientist and the tour lets me feel like James Bond.

I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, "the press."

Arguably the only goods people need these days are food and happiness.

It's a great lesson in modesty that you realize you're illiterate in a field that you think you're an expert in.