A second can feel like forever if what follows is heartbreak.

When you care about other people, it takes the spotlight off your own drama.

The ability to keep your mouth shut is usually a sign of intelligence

All reality is a blender where hopes and dreams are mixed with fear and despair.

I somehow make it through the first month. I dress and brush my teeth when they tell me to. And I experience the hollow feeling of complete loss, which is emptiness.

If you're lost, you might need to swim against the tide.

What we expect rarely occurs; what we don't expect is what happens.

Endings are always the beginnings of something else

It has been my experience that rewarding and heartbreaking often go hand in hand.

I'm putting my place in the universe into perspective. I'm stardust. I'm golden brown. I'm just one small bit in a vast expanse.

I'll be ready. I'm not sure for what exactly. But maybe that's what being ready really means.

No one ever loved you like him. And no one ever took it away so completely. But it's here. Look around.

Solitude is un-American.

New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.

A good product can last forever.

We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job.

I'm there to make people laugh. I'm not trying to come across as sexy.

If more designers had bad backs, we would have more good chairs.

Life does not owe you anything, because life has already given you everything.

If someone should ask me, 'What does the soul do?' I would say, It does two things. It loves. And it creates. Those are its primary acts.