Lost. The therapist made it sound as if the person could be found. As if death wasn’t final and irrevocable.

Are you sorry? Do you wish you could do it all again and go off and write novels instead of being a teacher?No. You can’t trade what is for what might have been.

He’s at the library, I think. Safe and sound in his world of books... Maybe he’ll write one someday.

Stay here with me, Trishy. Don’t go back to your old life. Make a new one, here. With me. I know it’s a hell of a big thing I’m asking—but I’m asking. Stay.- Joe

-Do you think it's dirty money?-All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.

I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.

There is only one thing for which God has sent me into the world, and that is to develop every kind of virtue or strength, and there is nothing in all the world that I cannot use for this purpose.

Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.

America doesn't have health insurance.

Do what the heart commands. The heart is our only guide.

Age holds absolutely no fear for me. There is so much enjoyment ahead.

I think the feeling that we're going to work together again usually starts to come up before the first project's even done. The Black Keys and I have already talked about starting on something new.

My doctor told me I shouldn't work out until I'm in better shape. I told him, 'All right; don't send me a bill until I pay you.'