The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.

Time flies when you're falling down"...(not from a book, it's a lyric)

I am not here to make you feel better, I am just here to make you feel worse

Ariel laughed and now her goose bumps had goose bumps.

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.

At Rain Man, I was 38. And before that, I had really just started working when I was 36. I was very late. So I've got time, right? As long as I stay healthy and eat right.

To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.

So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.

Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.

I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.

You're the last Olympian,' I said. 'And the most important.' And why is that, Percy Jackson?' Because Hope survives best at the hearth,' I said.

The image of all the cars leaving pastel-colored people at the same time has never really left me as an anti-ambition for life!

Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.