I don’t remember his face or the place we ate. I only remember how he grabbed my hand and his voice when he spoke of his dad.

They always come back, but we don’t always answer.

I stopped writing in the obvious. I wrote how I saw it and if they don’t understand it, that’s fine.

I didn’t fear you. I feared us. I feared what could have been. I feared what could be. I feared the connection we had between each other. The toxicity because I could grasp the danger.

We grow apart because we grow in different stages and not all of our stages align.

If I had amnesia, I know I would fall in love with you all over again.

The fact that neither of us made sense was the beauty of it.

I think we might’ve met in a past life. You know, one of those you pass and think, wow you’re kind of beautiful. Just one of those.

I romanticized him until he was the perfect being. A soul so beautiful, but so immensely evil too.

To fall in love with pain is to fall in love with art.

You didn’t understand the poem, but that was because it wasn’t for you. It was for me to understand the pain you put me through.

Life is such a glorious trauma, is it not?

While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun.

The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.

If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.

Community doesn't just create abundance - community is abundance. If we could learn that equation from the world of nature, the human world might be transformed.

The beautiful thing about fear is that when you run to it, it runs away.

Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.