Not many people are interested in what somebody else is thinking, or what they have to say. The best you can hope for is they'll listen to you just so you'll have to listen to them.

People can't fly because they don't believe they can. If nobody ever showed people they could swim, everybody'd drown if they were dropped into the water.

There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something.

What is love? As far as I can tell, it is passion, admiration and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you don't have to die to go to heaven.

Things come apart much easier than they go together.

Sometimes looking so hard can make one blind.

What we all tend to complain about most in other people are those things we don't like about ourselves.

Movement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead, they're only feathers and air.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.

Love is a beautiful, wonderful, and even sacred thing, but until it arrives, shouldn’t we give ourselves permission to thrive?

I’m thinking of the protector who wants to be protected and a fighter who loves the right battle but will lay down her arms to go on a quest.

Weakness, fear, melancholy, together with ignorance, are the true sources of superstition. Hope, pride, presumption, a warm indignation, together with ignorance, are the true sources of enthusiasm.

I love going to rock concerts, I love to lose myself in that vast wave of rhythm and body heat and get on the same vibe.

The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.

In Philly when it's good, there is no better place.

Being, not doing, is my first joy.

I tend to lean toward female leads who have their guard up, their spikes out.