For those who have learned what suffering is early on, you have prepared ahead of the pack so that you can take care of the pack.

Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.

There is the purity of love, harmonious in every way, but not meant for a lifetime, and then there is the steady love of commitment - no less real but completely different. She had both.

Darling, if I take your breath away, I will give you mine.

We love because we can lose. If there was no threat of separation, no death to shake us to our core, we probably wouldn't love much at all.

Connecting with someone is not necessarily a bond with a significant other, or even a friend, but can be the indefinable - perhaps the rarest and most precious thing in life to find at all.

Even "meant to be" takes work.

I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.

Am I a friend or a prospect? Imagine how much kinder life would be if people put as much effort into befriending others instead of trying to sell them something.

Where are the memories that held us together? Where are the dreams that were yet to come? I'm afraid to be happy. I shouldn't be happy. If I'm happy without you does that mean I've told you goodbye?

One of the disadvantages to having a choice is the inevitability to hang oneself on freedoms rope.

She had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly.

I was like the good girl, bad girl, there were no grey areas for me.

you can do anything you set your mind to

My heart died a while back. [Eragon]

Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.

Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web.

Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.

Love the vocal on Lightning. Overall great EP. We Sink is a favorite as well.

All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept.

I would describe my style of songwriting as classic. I learned very early on and have stuck to the core principles of song structure regardless of which genre I'm writing in.