And most of the time, when you're young and dumb - you know everything! Charles Freeman Lee bebop pianist and trumpeter

Oh, darling, you know we writers must occasionally stretch a point to heighten the dramatic situation.

Kissing was an extension of that, a celebration. A little party between us, amplifying our naive joy, our faith that the world was delighted to give us just what we wanted.

The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.

What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.

For me, the slower burn is a deeper and more effective scare. But I only like those kinds of scares when they're really earned. I don't like false scares.

A life without tragedy would not be worth living.

Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to Fred Astaire, just because he was more athletic, like skateboarding. His leaps were big. There was something really great about his moves.

Organized, yeah. And those who are so sure that their God is the right God that they believe it's ok to kill another person who doesn't believe in their God.

Music does not know the difference between people; it only speaks to their hearts. It is the only form of communication that can bring this terrible world together.

I'll grant the random access to my heart, Thoul't tell me all the constants of thy love; And so we two shall all love's lemmas prove And in our bound partition never part.