Remember that no matter where I am or what I'm doing I've got a special place inside me that's all for you. It's been there since the day we met.

That's how you know you really trust someone, I think; when you don't have to talk all the time to make sure they still like you or prove that you have interesting stuff to say.

When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.

The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.

Try a little tenderness.

I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.

It makes me think of Lazarus. He must have had those shadows after his miracle. You don't spend time in the tomb without it changing you, and everyone who was waiting for you to come out.

I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude.

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.

Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.

Try and make them understand that while artists can recycle their suffering in their art, I didn't know what to do with mine.

the siren song/called silence

People leave companies for two reasons. One, they don't feel appreciated. And two, they don't get along with their boss.

To keep a warm heart in winter is the real victory.

When I started to work on perfume, I could not reduce the idea of a woman to one smell.

I'm not good at hiding my feelings. I'm also not good at lying. I'm very open about everything.

Animals like crows, owls or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men's superstitious mind which is the inauspicious one!

The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed upon man.

Shibuya is a trendy part of Tokyo where young people come to meet and have a good time.

The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves.