This final sprint of Breaking Bad is like nothing I've ever seen. It's TV as a crescendo, as a magnet, as a wave. These episodes aren't ending so much as they're gasping for breath.

Emo: e-mo 1. A much-maligned, mocked, and misunderstood term for melodic, expressive, and confessional punk rock.

To be present - really, truly present - in art and life requires empathizing with uncertainty and wrestling with risk.

The greatest impediments to personal change always come from within, not without.

I don't want to have to save your life, ' Chord says softly. 'Not when you can do it.

When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself.

I don't deny myself food. I'm no saint. I love butter and cream, but I also eat lots of grains and fruits.

I love it when somebody makes me laugh - it's what attracts me to people.

I practice yoga and take a steam-filled bath or shower. Then I sit quietly and review and prioritize my to-do list.

To say you loved a person. / To say that person no longer exists. / A tragic flawed fate going on and on and on.

Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.

Theatre is, at its roots, some very brave people mutually consenting to a make believe world, with nothing but language to rest on.

Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.

I don't think I really started to seriously compose until around that time when I was 40.