Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you'll land among the stars

I don't know why men like to barbecue so much. Maybe its the only thing they can cook. Or maybe they're just closet pyromaniacs.

what a luxury it was for people to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

Most of all she loved that when she hugged him her head would rest neatly just below his chin, where she could feel his breath lightly blowing her hair and tickling her head.

I'm a million different things every day of the week.

I had a dream about you. We were ice fishing in my freezer. I caught a few cold beers, and you wondered if we should drink them, or throw them back because they were babies.

I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.

Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.

At the risk of sounding naff, it is having hope fulfilled.

But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?" Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.

Macon, wet from the raindrops for the first time.

The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]

I tasted huge success with my first album, and when it's happening it feels like a roller coaster you can't get off. You should be very careful about wishing for success on that scale.

Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.