I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.

I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely.

If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.

Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.

A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.

Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.

This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.

It's not me but the world that's deranged.

What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.

There is a thrill in relishing the suffering of strangers, and they hide their interest with worried faces.

The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester

New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.

You don't accept your weaknesses the same way that you love the weaknesses of another artist, because when they make mistakes they don't look like weaknesses.

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

I had my baby around 20 and I was always working on music, but I was always working on music, but I was doing other stuff as well.

If you haven't noticed so far, I think sleep is really important.

Sixty-five million years ago the dinosaurs had a bad day.

Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.

The secret of success in pitching lies in getting a job with the Yankees.