. . .Tell me, Clare: why on earth would a lovely girl like you want to marry H

Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.

It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.

Why is love intensified by absence?

Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.

I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.

I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room

As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

The best gift that we could give to our great nation is to prepare our younger generations to be fit enough to positively take our country to greater heights.

Entrepreneur, don't just read history, write it so people can see the future in the present.

And to those people with no children but who think they'd like to have them some day to fulfill their lives. Remember: With fulfillment comes responsibility.

Music connects with the soul. I think it's the quickest art form to the soul.

I've also become much more the musician I've always wanted to be.

I don't shop online. I'm always scared to put my credit card on the Internet!

Not waiting for someone to give you what you can give yourself.

Memories were the markers of the journey through life. It was necessary to know where you had come from. Only then could you know where you were going.