I swear, you are the only person I know who makes decisions based on what will provide the best material for a diary.

It's the heart that really matters in the end.

There weren’t many people in this world who would let you be vulnerable and still believe you were strong.

Im not crazy, Im just a little unwell.

What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it's gone.

I would like it to be certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.

Everybody's trusting in the heart like the heart don't lie...

Some things you don't need until they leave you, they're the things that you miss.

Music is a big machine that would go on with or without me.

Let your clarity define you, in the end, we will only just remember how it feels.

It's a noir world. Unfair things happen.

The only sharks I’m afraid of are the ones that wear three-piece suits and write memos.

But dream not helm and harness The sign of valor true

You're the fire burning inside of me.

It's harder for me to work on a Forrest Gump kind of movie, where everything is invisible.

O my body, make of me always a man who questions!

My philosophy on writing books is that if you learn only one new thing, or even get a new take on something you already know, it's worth it.

In all my years of New York cab riding I have yet to find the colorful, philosophical cabdriver that keeps popping up on the late movies.

Mountains draw you to a deeper place in yourself

It didn't happen in the 70s. So I had a whole decade when I was writing these books and maybe there was a little bit here or there but there was no big effort to ban books.

We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit.