I have no words — alas! — to tellThe loveliness of loving well!

You call it hope — that fire of fire!It is but agony of desire.

Often she dreamt she had two wings, and one was frightened, and one was happy.

The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.

I never wore a single fedora filming L.A. Noire. It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.

In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.

The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile.

It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it's who you are.

The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.

Could it be that by protecting our kids from unhappiness as children, we’re depriving them of happiness as adults?

My perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise.

It's hard to be a friend to someone who's depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.