Human warmth is perhaps the most lacking in a composer who lives his life in a recording studio.

You are the least-alone person I have ever known. Your heart has always included within it everyone who let you love them, and many who did not.

This is the only way that you can hope to survive. Because life... is not a movie. Everyone lies. Good guys lose. And love... does not conquer all.

She wished him at her side this very moment. If only to turn it all to rights by doing his very best to turn it all to ruin.

I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.

Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?

My balls feel like a pair of maracas.

God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.

The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole character of the people who produces them.

I don't write romance novels.

You can't grow and gain confidence from wearing the same thing every day.