I had never really thought of marriages as things that involved liking. I had just assumed this man-woman arrangement was yet another adult quirk, like flossing.

We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.

Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.

We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home

My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.

In this space, in this moment, we are who we want to be. I am lucky, because for me that doesn’t take much courage. But for others, it takes a world of bravery to make it to the clearing.

We are young and the night is young. We are in the middle of somewhere and we are feeling everything.

O Lord, as I walk through the valley of the shadow of doubt, at least let mewear a Walkman...

He kisses me back with a kiss like a smile.

The promise of a kiss will carry us forward.

I once told him that the best way to break up a fight is to step between the two people and start singing ancient folk songs. But I’d never heard of anyone actually doing such a thing.

The main reason to love is not to find pleasure but to fill our hearts with love.

i don't know where my life leads but i am sure it leads me where i want to lead

If I can't have love, if I can't find peace, / Give me a bitter glory.

People have alleged that I have inspired many young people over the years, but I say, it was just the opposite.

A classic is a classic for a reason. Let's try to create new classics. The idea of repeating ourselves drives me a little crazy.

Would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her affections.

At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down.

My Christian faith is at the very heart of who I am.

I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.

I paint and I sculpt and I enjoy doing things that aren't for the public. There's no pressure to it, it's just something that's a cleansing of the mind.