That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know.

Let's start a new tomorrow, today.

Eyes as black and as shiny as chips of obsidian stared back into his. They were eyes like black holes, letting nothing out, not even information.

His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.

Black as night, sweet as sin.

Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.

People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.

Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of the story.

The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties.

Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere on the inside, underneath it all, they sense it, and they resent it.

Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.

My greatest fear is time wasted—a life spent. My greatest fear is passing away from this world without leaving a lasting impact.

When men and women produce a baby together for the first time, it's an absolute festival of mutual incompetence.

I think our movie, 'Now You See Me, ' is an emotional movie rooted in smart and wits and fully amazing actors working perfectly together. It's like a supergroup of musicians.

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.

If you don't gamble, you'll never win.

I have no musical talent at all. I was banned from music classes and told I would never be able to understand anything. I still don't think I can sing, but somehow I get away with it.

That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.

I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke.

Grown up? Me? I suppose I have. Killing things, and almost killing myself, must have changed me some, after all.